"When he came to move Olivia from York Harbor to Riverdale on October 15, Clemens fretted about the method of transportation: asking for the Kanawha, then canceling the yacht and deciding on a train, arranging for a special car and special engines."
From DBD October 10th: Sam’s NB of Oct. 11: “Yesterday [Oct. 10] went to Boston with Howells, & I completed the RR arrangements with the Boston & Maine & N.Y. Central—as follows: / with / Invalid car from York Harbor to Riverdale without change. Time, 8.45 a.m. (York): 5.40 p.m. (Grand Central;) about 6, Riverdale. Whole cost, $339. It is special train from York to East Somerville (2 hours) & from Grand Central to Riverdale (25 minutes.[)] / Sent the check yesterday (Sat.)” [NB 45 TS 30].
October 24th: Sam’s notebook: “Go to Princeton this afternoon. The inaugural is tomorrow in the morning at 11. Take boat leaving W. 23d at 3.55 / Must carry or express my cap, gown & hood. (See Oct. 14)” [NB 45 TS 32].
Special trains left New York for Princeton, N.J.. at 8:40, 10:25, and 11:25 a.m. for Princeton, N.J., where the big football game between Princeton and Columbia would take place the following day [NY Times, p1, “Special Trains to Princeton,” Oct. 24, 1902]. Sam took a later train at 3:55 p.m. [Oct. 16 to Hutton].
February 10, 1903: William Dean Howells wrote from NYC to Sam, enclosing a typed synopsis of the court-martial following the death of Private Edward C. Richter, two pamphlets from the Congressional Record for Jan. 29 about the death of Father Augustine, and newspaper clippings on atrocities by American military in the Philippines (none are in the letter file at MTP): “Here is the report in full of that torture matter. If you cannot take it up, will you return the documents? [MTHL 2: 763&n1; MTP].
Jim Zwick, in an email message to Twain-L, dated 1 Nov 2007, wrote: "In 1903, Twain was asked to write about the torture-to-death by "water cure" of Father Augustine, a Filipino priest, by Captain Cornelius Brownell. Brownell later confessed that "the water cure was administered by my order several times to different natives" and that "every officer and every man, both in my regiment and of every other regiment with which I served, knew when it was given, and I was never criticised by any officer while in the service for administering it."
Twain began an article about this that was tentatively titled "Brownell's Conscience." Albert Bigelow Paine wrote that he "undertook to give expression to his feelings on this subject, but he boiled so when he touched pen to paper to write of it that it was simply impossible for him to say anything within the bounds of print."