April — Sam inscribed a photograph of himself seated for Elizabeth, not further identified [Ebay, Bestdarnautographs, 2010].
Sam also inscribe a photograph of himself (in a two-piece white suit smoking a cigar) to Sir Gilbert Parker: “To / Sir Gilbert Parker / with the love of / Mark Twain / April/09.” [Sotheby’s, June 19, 2003, Lot 133]. Note this photo was used for the cover of Sotheby’s catalog for the Mark Twain Collection of Nick Karanovich.
Sam also wrote a note in black ink on a box containing an old tintype of Orion Clemens: “Tintype of Orion Clemens / in a Guinea-gold hoop / mother use to wear / in the 40’s. At the time it contained a lock of her / mother or grandmother’s / hair / SLC. Apl. 1909” [MTP]. See insert.
Country Life in America ran an anonymous article, “Stormfield, Mark Twain's New Country Home. How the Humorist Built a House Without Seeing It—An Italian Villa in the Connecticut Hills—The Second in a Series of Articles on Country Homes of Notable Americans,” p. 607-11, 650-51. Tenney: “A description of the house at Redding, Connecticut, illustrated by pictures of the house and MT at his ease there, and a facsimile of his ‘Notice To the next Burglar’ warning that hung in the billiard room” [47].