April 27, 1909 Tuesday

April 27 Tuesday — Clemens went to New York City and spent the night with the Rogers family [Apr. 26 telegram to HHR]. Note: the nature of the visit, whether personal or business or both, is not known.

Pieter Bausch wrote a long letter of his travails in trying to publish his sketches and mentioned hope that a prior letter would be included in Sam’s Autobiography [MTP]. Note: Clemens wrote on the env. “No answer; NEVER try to do a stranger a kindness”; Clemens had paid Bausch $50 to use the “prior letter” in his Autobiography and also to help out a strugging writer. Bausch wouldn’t let go and became a pest.