April 11 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Mrs. Brocklebank—lunch—” [NB 47 TS 9].
Sam wrote to Harper & Brothers, London office, letter not extant but referred to in Harpers’ Apr. 14 reply; evidently, from the reply, Sam requested copies of “The Dictionary of Dates,” and Howells’ Stops of Various Quills (1895).
Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote from Ponkapog, Mass., saddened by the death of his son Charles after a long siege of tuberculosis. “Our hearts are full of grief, but there is room in them for sadness over accounts you send us about Mrs. Clemens…tell her that our boy’s illness…not cause us anxiety any more! We all send you love…” [MTP].
Edward St. John Fairman sent several pages of poetry, written in a microscopic hand [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Damned rubbish. No answer.”