May 24 Sunday – The New York Tribune, p. 16 reported on the Clemens family illnesses:
ILLNESS AT TWAIN HOME.
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Members of Family Have Been Sick—All
Except One Now Well.
The statements published in yesterday’s papers that Mark Twain and his family were still ill at his home, at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, were declared by Dr. Henry Moffat, of Yonkers, one of the physicians in attendance, to be wofully [sic] exaggerated.
“It is true,” said Dr. Moffat yesterday, “that since the beginning of the month, until quite recently, Mr. Clemens has been suffering more or less from a bad cold and an ulcerated tooth. This week, however, he spent a few days at the H.H. Rogers’s home, on Long Island Sound, and is now out and about, and as fit as a fiddle. The touch of bronchitis has left him.”
As to his family, who had all been ill, Dr. Moffat said Mrs. Clemens was well against, as was also her twenty-year-old daughter, Jean, who had been sick with measles. The doctor added that Miss Clara, who while nursing Miss Jean had contracted her malady, was now convalescent, and well on the road to recovery.