April 13, 1903 Monday

April 13 Monday – Sam took to his bed with a “heavy cold” which turned into bronchitis. He wrote of the five day stay in bed on Apr. 17 to Bigelow.

Roy L. McCardell’s article, “Men of To-Day Who Make the World Laugh. 1. Mark Twain,” ran in the New York World. Budd: “(Source, as given on clipping in Beinecke Library, Yale Univ., is wrong in some detail.) / SLC objects that he had not meant to grant Montague [see Dec. 20, 1902 NY Evening Journal article] a publishable interview (item 188a), while refusing to be interviewed, comments at length that writers should be paid for their words, their stock in trade [Budd, “Supplement” ALR 16.1 (Spring 1983) 71]. Budd’s no. 188b.

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.   

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