July 7 Friday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to William Winter.
We are too old, now, dear Winter, to rise out of our griefs; we must live with them the little time that is left us; the time when we could live separately from them is gone by; we laid our dead in tombs then, in the common graveyard, & lamented, & came away; but we bury them in our hearts, now, & remain & worship. / Have patience—it is not long, now [MTP]. Note: this seems a reply, but no recent from Winter is extant. Winter had lost a daughter and would dedicate a library to her, much as did H.H. Rogers to his daughter, Millicent.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Telegram [not extant] from Jean saying that she will stay in Norfolk until next week. Mr. Clemens had me telegraph [also not extant] Maj. Leigh to come up on Monday with Mr. Duneka. Mr. Clemens came down at 3 o’clock today, glad, and through with the day’s work. He rested, smoking and reading until 4:30 when he went out to make calls. Called on Col. Higginson, Dr. Stowell, Mr. Dwight, Mrs. Learned and the Catlins. After dinner Mr. Clemens read. It was a good day’s work, a noble day’s work, and then somehow in the course of the talk that followed when Mr. Clemens spoke of Mr. Duneka being a Catholic, he mentioned that as a possible reason for the Harpers not wanting King Leopold’s Soliloquy, but he went on to say that it is much more likely that Leopold has bought up the Harper silence, along with that of hundreds of other papers. It seems incredible. While Mr. Clemens was at Col. Higginson’s this afternoon, Col. Higginson told him a delightful little tale about a burglary here in Dublin some time since. The two men who made the raid selected a good many valuable things but among the things were a book and a pipe. Mr. [George W.] Gleason went on their track and traced their wagon wheels to away over the other side of the village, 3 miles beyond. There the tracks stopped and breaking through the woods they found and seized the thieves in the cellar of an old house, that had burned some time ago. Their booty was hidden there and the two chaps were having a good time just then. One was smoking the pipe, the other reading the stolen book, and the book was “Innocents Abroad.”
Today Col. Higginson told Mr. Clemens that a cultured woman here asked him if the “Recollections of Joan of Arc” was really intended as a burlesque [MTP TS 74-75].
Hamlin Garland wrote from West Salem, Wisc. to Sam, thanking him for his letter and praise on his recent book [MTP].
Henry Pemberton wrote from Dublin, N.H. wrote to Sam. “After my conversation with you about ‘Simplissimus’, I wrote to Schaefer & Koradi enquiring about it…Today I have received the accompanying letter from them, and a lot of sample copies…” Schaeffer & Koradi, Publishers & Booksellers, Phila. had written to Pemberton: “In answer to your favor of yesterday we send you to-day by mail a Catalogue of German Periodicals and sample numbers.” [MTP].
We are too old, now, dear Winter, to rise out of our griefs; we must live with them the little time that is left us; the time when we could live separately from them is gone by; we laid our dead in tombs then, in the common graveyard, & lamented, & came away; but we bury them in our hearts, now, & remain & worship. / Have patience—it is not long, now [MTP]. Note: this seems a reply, but no recent from Winter is extant. Winter had lost a daughter and would dedicate a library to her, much as did H.H. Rogers to his daughter, Millicent.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Telegram [not extant] from Jean saying that she will stay in Norfolk until next week. Mr. Clemens had me telegraph [also not extant] Maj. Leigh to come up on Monday with Mr. Duneka. Mr. Clemens came down at 3 o’clock today, glad, and through with the day’s work. He rested, smoking and reading until 4:30 when he went out to make calls. Called on Col. Higginson, Dr. Stowell, Mr. Dwight, Mrs. Learned and the Catlins. After dinner Mr. Clemens read. It was a good day’s work, a noble day’s work, and then somehow in the course of the talk that followed when Mr. Clemens spoke of Mr. Duneka being a Catholic, he mentioned that as a possible reason for the Harpers not wanting King Leopold’s Soliloquy, but he went on to say that it is much more likely that Leopold has bought up the Harper silence, along with that of hundreds of other papers. It seems incredible. While Mr. Clemens was at Col. Higginson’s this afternoon, Col. Higginson told him a delightful little tale about a burglary here in Dublin some time since. The two men who made the raid selected a good many valuable things but among the things were a book and a pipe. Mr. [George W.] Gleason went on their track and traced their wagon wheels to away over the other side of the village, 3 miles beyond. There the tracks stopped and breaking through the woods they found and seized the thieves in the cellar of an old house, that had burned some time ago. Their booty was hidden there and the two chaps were having a good time just then. One was smoking the pipe, the other reading the stolen book, and the book was “Innocents Abroad.”
Today Col. Higginson told Mr. Clemens that a cultured woman here asked him if the “Recollections of Joan of Arc” was really intended as a burlesque [MTP TS 74-75].
Hamlin Garland wrote from West Salem, Wisc. to Sam, thanking him for his letter and praise on his recent book [MTP].
Henry Pemberton wrote from Dublin, N.H. wrote to Sam. “After my conversation with you about ‘Simplissimus’, I wrote to Schaefer & Koradi enquiring about it…Today I have received the accompanying letter from them, and a lot of sample copies…” Schaeffer & Koradi, Publishers & Booksellers, Phila. had written to Pemberton: “In answer to your favor of yesterday we send you to-day by mail a Catalogue of German Periodicals and sample numbers.” [MTP].
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