October 10 Saturday – Sam also wrote to Frank N. Doubleday [MTP]. UCCL 12873 letter is not available.
Sam’s notebook: “H. [Harpers] has no subscription-rights in last 2 books. / 1847. Witnessed post mortem of my uncle through the keyhole” [NB 46 TS 25]. Note: curiously, it was his father, not his uncle; also probably not a regular post-mortem, and probably not much could be seen through the keyhole.
At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam inscribed a copy of Kipling’s The Five Nations to Livy: “From / Frank N. Doubleday / to / SL. Clemens / From / SL. Clemens / to / Livy Clemens / with very great love, / New York, Oct 10/03” [MTP].
John Hay’s article ran in Saturday Evening Post, “A Negative Assent,” p.7. Tenney: “The text of his letter to George Gunn: he disapproves of Gunn’s proposal to pull a few proofs of MT’s ‘1601’ and asks Gunn to save him a copy. (This letter is reprinted as a part of the preface in many popular editions of ‘1601.’)” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 189].
October 10-14 Wednesday – At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to the Women’s Municipal League. The letter ran in the N.Y. Times on Oct 16, p.2 [MTP]. See Oct. 16.