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From Hill, 1973

"...the Clemens family loved the house at Riverdale (later known as "Wave Hill" and occupied by Arturo Toscanini and Sir Gladwyn Jebb, British ambassador to the United Nations). It was an enormous fieldstone, three-story mansion with impressive wooded grounds, just inside the New York City limits."


October 21, 1901: Sam went to New Haven, Conn. to take part in the festivities for Yale University’s Bicentennial celebration. He would stay there until Oct. 24 and receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree; he already had an honorary MA degree from Yale (1888)


January 20, 1902: The Clemens family travel to Elmira, returning to Riverdale on the 27th.


March 13, 1902:  Sam left on the train for Jersey City to begin the voyage through the West Indies. He returned to Riverdale April 9th.


April 19th, Sam was in Princeton, with Helen Keller, as guests of Laurence Hutton.


April 24 Thursday – Sam traveled to Philadelphia, to attend the funeral for Frank R. Stockton


 

Sam took a cruise of "The West Indies" aboard Henry Rogers' yacht, the Kanawha. The party consisted of Laurence Hutton, H.H. Rogers, Clemens, Clarence C. Rice, Colonel Augustus G. Paine, Thomas B. Reed, and Wallace Turner Foote, Jr.. Sam kept a log of the cruise to points south, the MS of which is at the Mark Twain Project, called “Winter-end Excursion to the Sutherd.”


Thursday, March 13. Moved down by rail. Remembered with fruit from Mrs. Broughton, & violets from Mrs. Harry Rogers, jr.”

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