February 21 Sunday – Lady Augusta Gregory wrote from Gort, Ireland to Sam, sorry to hear “so sad an account of your dear wife’s health.” Mr. Yeats was sailing home and she had given him Sam’s “kind message.” She was alone there making repairs from a great storm of last year, and would soon go to London to help her son, who had taken up art with charcoal and pencil. She mentioned that her new book, “Gods and Fighting Men, etc. was meeting a favorable reception, for which she was thankful” [MTP: Gribben 278].
George Gregory Smith wrote to Sam, enclosing three letters.
I had an interview with Senator Luchini yesterday afternoon, and we got everything in train. [Ubaldo] Traverso the Solicitor is out of town, but will return to-morrow Monday when we are to have another conference. The Senator displayed some temper when I showed him the letter you had received from that squirt gun in Sesto. He answered it somewhat as follows: ‘Sir I have received a letter addressed by you to Mr. Clemens instead of to the owner of Quarto’. That was all.
I enclose a letter from Proctor, and also one to him from Mrs. Tharpe. I will go with you to see Camarata anytime you feel inclined except to-morrow Monday afternoon [MTP]. Note: Smith’s wife sent regards.