July 27, 1903 Monday

July 27 Monday – At Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to James Whitcomb Riley in Indianapolis, Ind. “The delightful book has arrived, & it is as you say on the fly-leaf:—in it I do find friends of Huck’s & Tom’s, ‘and pards of theirs of Long Ago.’ Thank you cordially, dear old friend, & may we yet meet again!” [MTP]. Note: likely The Book of Joyous Children (1902). The American Monthly Review of Reviews July 1902, Vol. 26, p.753 editorialized that the “touches of uncompromising realisim…make his juveniles like those of Mark Twain and Thomas Bailey Aldrich,—sui generis in contrast to the machine-made boys’ book.” (Not in Gribben.)