September 14 Tuesday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Melville E. Stone.
Dear Stone: / I have been a sick man for several months, & shut up in the house by the doctors, & you go & choose this time to have a banquet, when I can’t come! I am sorry. But I don't blame you—you couldn’t help it.
Along with this will go a statement by my legal counsel, Mr. Lark, correcting a few of the multitudinous lies which Miss Lyon's tribe have been printing about my daughters & me for the past 4 months. Clara wants it in the Associated Press, but if I alone were concerned I wouldn't take any notice of the rotten Ashcrofts. I caught Miss Lyon stealing money (she had been at it more than two years), & I bounced her. That is the whole of the dispute.
A noble good time to you! / Ys Ever / ... [MTP]. Note: Stone was manager for Associated Press.
Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Mrs. Knox & | Sept. 14 | ||
| 2 Masters Bronson | Ridgefield |
John Pierpont Morgan wrote to Sam.
Dear Mr, Clemens:
I need hardly tell you how much gratification it affords me to enrich my collection with your two manuscripts, “Life on the Mississippi” and “Pudd’nhead Wilson”, I am delighted with them and thank you sincerely,
I take pleasure in inclosing a check for the sum which Colonel Harvey suggests would represent a proper honorarium” [MTP]. Note; “J. Pierpont Morgan, enclosing $2,500. / (& answer)”; Robert Hirst of the Mark Twain Project confirmed that the Morgan estate still owned the manuscripts as of 2012.