September 10 Friday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Helen Schuyler Allen in Franklin, N.Y. Text is not available [MTP].
Sam also wrote a postcard to Dorothy Quick.
I am glad to hear you are enjoying yourself. I am still a prisoner in the house these past 3 months, with no prospect of getting out for a long time to come. But I guess it’s all right. Infirmities & disabilities are quite proper to old age, Have a good time while you are young, dear! /With lots of love / ...[MTP; MTAq 264].
Sam noted in his after Sept. 25, 1909 letter that on this day, “Ashcroft Bill for $8,000 ‘services’ compromised for $1,000. / 2 years of M.T. Co. commission reduced to half year. / Ashcroft forced out of the M.T. Co.” Note: Hill marks this day as the signing of “a discharge of all indebtedness and obligations to Ralph W. Ashcroft and Isabel Lyon Ashcroft from the Mark Twain Company” [239]. Hill also writes:
“Ashcroft resigned from the Mark Twain Company’s board of directors; the attachment on the Farmington house was lifted. Ashcroft retained his position with the Plasmon Milk Products Company, the role in which Clemens had first encountered him, as an ally, five years earlier” [240].
Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Edward Loomis | Elmira, N.Y. | Sept. 10 | |
| Jervis Langdon | Being the Mark Twain Co. | ||
| Mr. Lark | New York | Officers & Directors | |
| Albert B. Paine | Redding |