April 15 Monday – In N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Laurence Hutton, who had become a professor at Princeton University.

Dear Professor: / I am glad to hail you by that handsome title, and we all congratulate you cordially! Mrs. Clemens puts in her head and interrupts to say, “Give them my love, my best love, and do your dictating a little more quietly and don’t make such a hell of a racket for I am busy in here and have things to attend to myself.” That is like my wife, who is nothing if not unliterary.

Sam suggested that they might visit on Thursday, May 9 and read that evening [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Dr. William Allen Pusey.

“It is true, as you say, that doctor is multiplying from year to year. I have six of him on my list already. I do not remember the one which you inclose. The real one was Dr. A. Reeves Jackson of Chicago, whose too early death I still lament” [MTP: Chicago Daily Tribune, 2 June 1901, p. 45]. Note: Dr. Pusey (d. 1937), a dermatologist, would serve as President of the American Medical Assoc. 1923-4.