October 30 Saturday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Helen Schuyler Allen in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Dear Helen: / I hope you & your mother reached your island safe & well. It was a short visit you gave me, but it was delightful, & it must be repeated some day & lengthened, if you’ll be so good.
We have fitted up & furnished the small house that is a quarter of a mile from here & it is charming. We did it because we expect my daughter & her new husband to come up & take a little rest there from sickbed-vigils & surgical operations before they sail for Germany Nov. 20.
I wish you were back hear, dear! With lots of love to you, & proper modifications of it to your mother—/ SLC [MTP; not in MTAq].
Sam also wrote to Helen Kerr Blackmer (Mrs. Henry Myron Blackmer) in N.Y.C.
Dear Mrs. Blackmer: / To-day you will be going to Myron; but by next Friday or Saturday (Nov. 5 or 6) Margaret will be out of jail, & if she doesn’t commit any fresh crimes in the meantime I hope you'll come then.
We can’t tell when Gabrilowitsch will be well enough to come up, but it doesn’t matter, anyway—there’ll be bed & shelter for you & Margaret. Do try to come—I am laying up good weather for you. /Affectionately Yours / & Margaret’s /... [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Mrs. Augusta M.D. Ogden in N.Y.C.
Dear Mrs. Ogden:
It was shabby of me to furnish such weather, but I did it by accident, not intention. Try again, & I will do a great deal better, I give you my word.
Gabrilowitsch is improving quite satisfactorily, these days. / Sincerely Yours / SL. Clemens
[in lefthand margin:] You never saw such plumbing. The flies come right through the screens, so does the dog [MTP].