July 5 Saturday – In York Harbor, Maine Sam wrote to James B. Pond. “Your belated pad of paper arrived last night. Why didn’t you send your letter & pad together—like a rational person. Shall I write the 26 again?” [MTP].
Sam also wrote again to Pond. The beginning of the letter is missing.
Yes, I will advise you, willingly. As between Davos & the Adirondacks, for the sick member, I should advise the Adirondacks. The health-conditions are the same—a healing dry air & perfectly pure—& one can get to the Adirondacks in quick time, in great comfort, & without trouble. It is a pleasure trip, & one cannot say this of the journey to Davos, from either America or any part of Europe. All of you—sick & well alike— will find the lakes & woods & mountains a restful, invigoration & body-& spirit-contenting paradise, under all conditions & in all weathers and seasons, spring, summer, autumn & winter [MTP]. Note: Davos, Switzerland.
Harper’s Weekly ran a review of “A Double-Barrelled Detective Story” on p. 717, “A Banquet of Sensations.” Also, “Mark Twain Unveils a Tablet to Eugene Field,” ran in this issue on p. 851 [Tenney 36].
Sam’s allegorical, short tale “The Five Boons of Life” also ran in Harper’s Weekly for July 5, 1902. It was collected in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906) [Budd, Collected 2: 1007].
Henry C. Griffin, Tarrytown attorney, wrote to Sam that Judge William D. Dickey (1845-1907) granted Griffin’s motion about considering a lower of the taxes on the Tarrytown house. A referee would now be appointed [MTP]. Note: Dickey would serve on the NY Supreme Court (1897-1907).
Muriel M. Pears of London began a letter to Sam that she finished on July 7. The “truly Eastern gorgeousness of your [Juggernaut] Club idea, and the dazzling magnificence of my position in it, took me a little aback for a minute or two….? But when my brother Lenard had poured Mother’s lavender Talcs over me , and held some ice to my head, and let my cousin hold my hand, I came to again and said ‘boys, don’t ever speak of Rhodes, or Mulberry Sellers, or Alexander the Great or Chauncey Depew…” The melodramatics continued for several pages [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “The Member for Scotland / Received July 25/02.”