April 19 Tuesday - The New York Times, p. 18, Apr. 20, datelined Apr. 19 Redding, announced:
Mark Twain a Little Weaker.
REDDING, Conn,, April 19.—Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain,) who is here trying to regain his health after the severe attack of heart trouble that prostrated him on the voyage from Bermuda to New York last week, is a little weaker. Dr. Robert Halsey of New York issued a statement tonight as follows:
“Mr. Clemens is very comfortable tonight and passed a quiet day, though he seems to have grown a little weaker.” Dr. Halsey will remain with Mr. Clemens.
George Buxton Byron wrote from Chicago to Sam.
Together with all other reading men and women, I deeply sympathize with you in your illness, and also together with them rejoice at the favorable reports from your bed-side which we receive from day to day.
You have given me more delight than any other author I ever read, and if everyone whom you have charmed as you have charmed me, were to write you now and tell you about it, the post-office at Redding would be blockaded for months to come.— believe you are better loved than any other living man, and if the heart-felt wishes of each and all of us for your speedy recovery can avail you anything, I am sure you cannot remain long sick. (Dear Mark, we simply cannot spare you, you must get well” [MTP]. Note: “Save this letter”