Submitted by scott on

March 25 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr. Duneka says of the Satan letter ‘That it is great[’]. Boy come today with proof. / Count Lewenhaupt began treatment today for Mr. Clemens—$2.00 a treatment. / Mr. Clemens dined with Mr & Mrs. Rogers” [MTP TS 9]

Poultney Bigelow wrote on Boston University Law School letterhead to Sam. “This top line gives you a notion of where I am and what I am doing and that I’m thinking of you and wondering if you’re happy and well and if the KELGREN magic still works in your blood.” Bigelow planned to pass through NYC on Mar. 25 on his way to speak at West Point and if Sam would be in he would stop by. He wrote of his work in Boston and invited Sam there any time [MTP].

Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote from Cambridge, Mass. to Clemens, happy at the news that Sam would be their neighbor in Dublin, N.H., and hoping to see a lot of him [MTP].

Robert Underwood Johnson for the National Institute of Arts wrote to Sam, announcing a meeting of the fifteen members for Saturday, April 22 at the Aldine Assoc. 111 Fifth Ave at 1:15 p.m. to elect the next five members [MTP].

Charles Macllevy for the Plasmon Company of America wrote to Sam, announcing a stockholder meeting Room 63, 111 Broad St., NYC at 2:30 p.m. on Apr. 27, 1905, the purpose to elect five directors and two Inspectors of Election [MTP].

Roland Phillips for Harper’s Weekly wrote to Sam, enclosing the proof of “A Humane Word from Satan”—could he look it over and return it with the messenger boy? [MTP].

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.