October 16 Wednesday – William Dean Howells replied to Sam that he would “gladly come to your feast of acorns tomorrow evening,” but was concerned they might “poke” him out without an invitation. He also poked Sam about the upcoming Yale event publicity:
“In the notice of the Yale guests, as I noted with my usual grouch where you are concerned, your name came first, with some laudatory type round it, and mine followed with the “and others,” and nothing attached to it. So I think there is some mistake” [MTHL 2: 731].
Samuel M. Bergheim wrote from London on Plasmon letterhead to Sam, advising that “the allotment of shares from the International Plasmon to the Plasmon Syndicate has not yet been completed….the allotment will be made, and we will at once communicate with you” [MTP].
Clarence Gordon of the East Side House Settlement, NYC wrote to Sam, with arrangements to transport him with a carriage from 125th Street at 7:46 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7 for his promised reading [MTP].
The New York Times, p.9, “Twain’s Attack on Missions” reported that the Christian Foreign Missionary Society “held Mark Twain responsible for a falling off of its receipts.”
October 16, after – Sam’s Thursday morning to Laurence Hutton, has now been judged to be May 2, 1901. See entry.