August 18 Monday – In York Harbor, Maine: Sam’s notebook: “Sue due here 11.45 a.m. At 9 this morning, Jervis handed in a telegram to Boston to say he & Sue would arrive here at 11.45—which they did. 2 hours later (at 1.45) the telegram reached me! It had then been in the York Harbor office one hour & a half (since 12.14. B. to Y.H. 4 ¾ hours by telegraph. / Chg 25 for deliver. / Don’t divulge its leaving-time” [NB 45 TS 23].
In his long letter to the Western Union President written after Aug. 27, Sam cited the arrival from Boston of his nephew (Jervis) in York Harbor on Aug. 18 at noon [MTP].
Jervis Langdon II sent a telegram from Boston to Sam. “Shall bring Aunt Sue to you eleven forty five this morning” [MTP]. Note: see above NB entry, complaint.
Sam wrote a piece not published in his lifetime: “In Dim and Fitful Visions They Flit Across the Distances”. See this memory of Susy in MTB Appendix “U,” p. 1660-62.
The Denver Post ran Sam’s article, “The Men Who Don’t Like Huck” [Camfield’s bibliog.]. Note: likely at least as portion of Sam’s Aug. 14 letter to the Post.