September 11 Sunday – In N.Y.C. Sam replied on a banquet invitation sent by Melville Elijah Stone for the Associated Press. “Dear Mr. Stone: It is so long since I was at a banquet, that I probably shan’t know how to behave—still, I shall be there.” Sam added a request after his signature to please keep his “hotel address secret” [MTP]. Note: strangely the enclosed card was for a Sept. 22 banquet at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis, Ind. Sam did not travel to Indiana on that date, so the card was likely used for another event.

N.M. Rosenberg wrote from London to Sam. He was a fan who had lost his fiancé and “a not inconsiderable fortune within a month. I have not the stoicism of many & so broke down—your book “Extracts from Adam’s Diary[”]—brought forth my first laugh—for which I most truly thank you” [MTP].