April 22, 1909 Thursday

April 22 Thursday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Elizabeth Wallace.

Dear Betsy: / It is not conveyable in words. I mean my vanity—rotten joy in the dear and pleasant things you say of me, and in my enviable standing in your class, as revealed by the class’s answer to your challenge. So I shall not try to do the conveying, but only say I am grateful—a truth which you would easily divine, even if I said nothing at all.

You must come here again—please don’t forget it. We'll have another good time. / Affectionately, / ... [MTP: Eliz. Wallace, Mark Twain and the Happy Island 1913, p.128].