February 23 Monday – Sam’s butler (perhaps Claude) returned from the Oppenheimer Institute. From the UC Berkeley 1973 Christian Science footnotes:
302 footnote) Clemens’ “intellectual method” of curing a vice was to banish the vicious desire (see “Concerning a Reformed Pledge,” Paine 154). The person he offered to cure of alcoholism was one of his servants, perhaps his butler Claude. In February 1903 [16th], apparently as a last resort, Clemens sent him to the Oppenheimer Institute in New York. Shortly after completing the cure the man turned up drunk again, and Clemens, who had paid $150 for his treatment, complained unsuccessfully to the Institute. He added his footnote before the relapse, while he still thought the cure demonstrated the value and power of things difficult to attain [567]. Note: see Nov. 1905 to Oppenheimer Institute