October 14 Thursday — On this day or Oct. 15 in Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to daughter Clara at the Hotel Latham, N.Y.C.
“Mrs. Gabrilowitsch / Hotel Latham, 5th ave & 28th st. New York
“It is very distressing & I am sorry but the hospital will be ever so much better & safer for appendicitis than the ship. Gabrilowitsch is in luck again. Tell him so from me. / Marcus.” [MTP]. Note: Clara’s groom had appendicitis. They canceled their voyage to Europe and he was operated on. See Oct. 17 NY Times squib.
Joe Goodman wrote from Alameda, Calif. to Sam. “Dear Mark— / Your card announcing the marriage of Clara with Ossip Gabrilowitsch is just received. / God bless them! — and bless us all! / Yours ever” [MTP].
Mary E. Wood wrote to Sam enclosing a dollar for the Mark Twain Library and requesting an autograph in return for her Hillcrest edition copy [MTP].