May – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to William Dean Howells.

Dear Howells: / Won’t you come down & dine tomorrow, 7.30? Nobody but the family & Rev. Geo.

Williamson Smith, (President of Trinity, Hartford)—one of the loveliest men alive.

You’ll get this this evening. Answer it, then, per mail, & we’ll get it in time [MTHL 2: 728]. Note: In Weggis, Switzerland, Livy had run into Smith, who lunched with the Clemens: see July 30, 1897 entry. See also notes after this letter in source.

Scott puts May 1901 to Sam’s poem, “My Last Thought” [Camfield’s Bibliog.]. Note: See Jan. 4, 1906 IVL.