February 25 Thursday - In Redding. Conn. Sam wrote to John Albert Macy.
Dear Mr. Macy: / Thank you for Greenwood’s book. I have read it most carefully, and have stolen meat enough from it to stuff yards and yards of sausage-gut in my vast Autobiography and make it look like my own. And really the gut is mine. My, but I have enjoyed that book!
With love to you all,
Clemens,
Don't forget to send that other book [MTP]. Note: Clemens worked on his manuscript “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in which he disputed the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays and quoted extensively from a manuscript by Granville George Greenwood. See Feb, 17 to Nunnally, notes.
Sam also wrote to H.H. Rogers.
Dear Mr. Rogers: / I love you, & I love Frank Lawrence, & I love St. Andrew; & so I would strain many points to Yes a proposition from you, when I believe God to be on your side, as in the present instance. (And, I may add, as usual.) But I can’t come, because I am keeping hotel, & no train comes or goes without bringing me a guest or robbing me of one—& so I am always on deck. All my beds—as usual—will be full on St. Patrick’s Day, & I shall be here to collect the tips. You must thank Lawrence for me, & give him my love.
I note what you say: That you & Mrs. Rogers are coming as soon as there’s good automobiling. I am very glad & shall watch the roads./ With love to you both, / S. L. C. [MTHHR 658-9]. Note: Frank R. Lawrence, president of the Lotos Club, wrote on Feb. 23 asking for Sam to speak at a dinner in honor of Andrew Carnegie on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17. At first he declined, then changed his mind.
Beatrice M. Benjamin wrote from NYC to thank Sam for his letter and the “excellent picture.” She was “most anxious” to see his new house [MTP]. Note: H.H. Roger’s granddaughter.