May 28 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Wait for Burton Thompson” [NB 44 TS 11]. Note: not identified.
The New York Times, May 29, p 3 reported on a banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria to organize the
Missouri Society of New York:
A MISSOURI SOCIETY NOW
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Organization in This City Formed at a Banquet.
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May 27 Monday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to William Dean Howells after presumably receiving a photograph of Howells inscribed to “Old Clemens.”
May 26 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Roslyn” [NB 44 TS 11].
May 25 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Alice Day, dinner” [NB 44 TS 11].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
216 Consol gas of NY 9.50
May 23 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “Mrs. Rogers” [NB 44 TS 11].
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote a postcard to Channing H. Cook of the American Plasmon Co., N.Y.C. “You were quite right, Dr. Cook. It was Dr. Lockwood“ [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Rudyard Kipling, apologetic he hadn’t been much help in Kipling’s suit against Putnam & Co.
May 22 Wednesday – Adirondack Park Co. per George V. Duryee wrote to Sam enclosing an inventory of the Camp cabin furniture [MTP].
[Dangling PDF box] [MTP: MS: Anderson Galleries].
May 21 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “May 21. The first time John Mackay has mentioned that $5,000 in all these years. Said he had my vote. A surprise to me. He bought what John P. Jones called a ‘privilege,’ & paid for it. Jones did the same. I owe nothing. The idea of my borrowing money at that time! I had burdens enough without that. It was about 1890” [NB 44 TS 11]. Note: see Sam’s NB entry of July 29, 1890, Vol. II.
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
May 20 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “2 p.m. Stenographer / John Mackay after 2. 253 B’way” [NB 44 TS 11].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
114 Whitmore 110.00
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote on Frank Bliss’ May 15: “Dear Bliss: You have correctly stated the situation (above) as I understand it” [MTP]. Note: See May 15.
May 17 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Judson Smith has an impediment in his veracity. / Paraphrase the E.G. Cable make Ament a young lady who publishes her own unchastity. Because she does it in only one cablegram it isn’t worth noticing” [NB 44 TS 11].
May 16 Thursday – Adirondack Park Co. per George V. Duryee wrote to Sam acknowledging his check for $150 and a signed copy of the lease for the camp cabin [MTP].