April 16 Saturday — Andrew Carnegie wrote from NYC to Sam: “So glad you are reported better this morning gives me hopes you are to weather the storm & be spared to us a while longer—so be it....When you get real chatty again if you can not come down I’d like to make a pilgrimage to your shrine just to get a few sniffs of a real genuine work a day saint...” [MTP].
Lincoln National Bank per David C. Grant wrote to advise of a charge to Sam’s account for $202.89 “covering a draft for £41 by Mrs. Clara Gabrilowitsch against her letter of credit” [MTP].
Dr. Robert E. Williams wrote from Thomasville, Ga. to send Sam “an old Negro remedy for heart failure....If you come to Thomasville we will give you a remedy for anything you suffer” [MTP].
The New York Times, April 17, p. 2, reported on Clara’s arrival in NYC on the evening of Apr. 16.
MARK TWAIN’S DAUGHTER HERE
Mrs. Gabrilowitsch and Her Husband, the Pianist, Called by Author’s Illness.
Mrs. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who was Miss Clara Clemens, the only surviving daughter of Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain,) and her husband, the Russian pianist, arrived last night on the American liner New York. Mr. Gabrilowitsch has not been playing for a year. He and his wife were in Rome when word reached them of the serious condition of Mr, Clemens, That was ten days ago, and since then they have been traveling to reach Mr. Clemens’s home at Redding, Conn,
Before sailing they had been assured by Mr. Clemens’s physician that his condition had improved. They were greatly relieved to learn upon their arrival that he had also improved since his return from Bermuda.
“We had intended coming to America to spend the Summer with Mr. Clemens,” said Mr. Gabrilowitsch, “The news that he had been taken ill in Bermuda simply caused a change in plan and we are here sooner than we had expected.”
Ossip Gabrilowitsch had Miss Clara Clemens were married at the Clemens home on Oct. 6, 1909.