June 16 Tuesday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Annie E. Trumbull.
Livy instructs me to thank you heartily & affectionately for your book, which has just arrived. She has had a chance to read only the two or three opening pages, but she finds them just delicious, & sees you in them & hears you talk. And itI am to send you her unfading & indestructible love.
Sho! Dern’d if I don’t believe I was to have written this letter in the first person & she to sign it. Is that spelt right? Some spell it with a u, but not the best authorities, I think. Will you ask Twichell? [MTP]. Note: Trumbull’s book was likely Life’s Common Way (1903) on the strength of “Books Left with A. B. Paine”, by Gribben, p. 913. See others in Gribben p.715. Sam referred to the book by name in his July 18 to Harriet Whitmore.
Sam also wrote to Harriet E. Whitmore (Mrs. Franklin G. Whitmore).
Livy says she wants to give you the “Mercury,” & will be very glad if you will accept it, with her love.
I wish to thank you & Brer Whitmo’ heartily for the charming time I had in your house, & express the hope that it may be my privilege to repeat it some time.
Mrs. Clemens is cheerful & is very much her old self. She is progressing [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Frank N. Doubleday “I got the letter—many thanks. Do you want elegant extracts outen my books? Bliss might deny you, and the Colonel [Harvey] might, but I’ll say yes, and be responsible” [MTP].
Sam’s notebook: “Mr. Coe, Waldorf / 7.30, dinner” [NB 46 TS 19].