April 10 Wednesday – John Y. MacAlister wrote to Sam, “just beginning to creep about after a wearisome attack of influenza” so he had no details to offer on the Plasmon Syndicate in London, but heard it was growing “by leaps and bounds” [MTP].
April 9 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Alice Day— dinner?” [NB 44 TS 8].
April 8 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Mrs. Day, dinner” [NB 44 TS 8].
April 7 Sunday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote a postcard to his attorney Augustus T. Gurlitz.
“It is not likely that I can leave the house for some days to come. I am still bedridden” [MTP: Sotheby’s, NY, 11 Dec. 1990, Item 382].
April 6 Saturday – Thomas B. Reed wrote to Sam, a typed letter on his law offices letterhead, 10 Wall Street. He included a prospectus. Reed suggests “You and Mr. Rogers and I take this whole thing.” He explained it was a solicitation for stock in a Maine corporation that would offer each poor man twenty acres to farm, give him board and lodging, etc. and make him worth $10,000 in five years [MTP]. Note: On Apr. 11 Sam forwarded the letter and prospectus along with his note, to Emilie R. Rogers
April 4 Thursday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam sent a postcard to his attorney Augustus T. Gurlitz.
“Name the day & hour—so that I can be here when you come” [MTP: Sotheby’s, NY, 11 Dec. 1990, Item 382].
April 3 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “The Barber’s Opinion. / Dutchy (Chief) / John Lewis (assistant). / Italian Beppo, (sub.) / Mike (Irish) ” [NB 44 TS 8].
Sam wrote to New York Central Recreation and Information Bureau.
April 2 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Cody’s Wild West Madison Garden. Begin at 8 / Miss Harrison” [NB 44 TS 8]. Note: see this entry.
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam replied to J. Henry Harper in N.Y.C. “Good. Then I shall expect you at noon tomorrow. I can’t come to you, for I am laid up with rheumatism” [MTP].
April 1 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “11 p.m. Bliss and Gibman. Dinner–Poultney” [NB 44 TS 8].
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote again to Laura F. McQuiston in Fort Hancock, N.J.
April – Arthur Newall wrote from England asking where he might obtain a copy of Sam’s obscure 1601 tale of Elizabethan England. Newall’s letter and Sam’s reply are not extant but referred to in Newall’s Jan. 24, 1905 letter. In the 1905 letter Newall wrote that Sam had mentioned that Lords Wolseley and Houghton might have a copy. See the 1905 entry [MTP].