November 26?–December 10 – Sometime during this period Sam wrote to Katharine Lampton Paxson. The letter wound up in the Kansas City Star, Jan. 28, 1907. I seem to see, through the dim vista of years, an adoring group, gathered around a beloved figure—Col. Mulberry Sellers. I must have drawn him winningly, attractively, engagingly, for within the past few years no less than six persons have presented their credentials to me as being the original Col. Mulberry Sellers. . . . . .

If I have ever said or written anything derogatory to that warm & noble heart, I am not aware of it. I seem now to feel the breezy uplift of his indestructible optimism.