July 31 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Isabel V. Lyon replied for Sam to M.H. Crandall.
“M . Clemens directs me to write for him and say that he has so many calls upon his purse, for one cause or another, that he must decline your invitation to endow a scholarship in your university” [MTP]. Note: the university in question was Alfred University. See below entry from Crandall.
M.H. Crandall wrote on Alfred University, Alfred, NY to ask Sam to endown a “Mark Twain Scholarship” for $1,000 [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: ”Mr. Clemens is writing maxims. / Mr. Clemens and Jean dined with Mrs. And the Misses Stickney and came home early” [MTP TS 83]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Wrote Mr. Greene that Mr. Clemens will be glad to have the refusal of this house for another Summer” [MTP TS 25].
Charles J. Langdon wrote to Sam, having just paid taxes on the Genesee Street property, Buffalo; Sam’s third owing was $271.06. He had just returned from a trip up the Great Lakes [MTP].
R.W. Mastick, of Mastick-Morrison Co. Leather, San Francisco, wrote to ask Sam if he could send the “Christmas Greeting” given to the press during the war with Spain. He’d been unable to find it [MTP].
Cuyler Reynolds wrote on The Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society letterhead to Sam, seeking another copy of TS, as his dog had taken “a decided fancy” to his old copy and “did his best to ‘read, Mark, learn and inwardly digest’ it.” Reynolds wrote after his signature, “Author of Rosamond Tales, which never overtook Tom Sawyer in its sale” [MTP]. Note:, Rosamond Tales (1901) bedtime stories for children by Cuyler Reynolds (1866-1934) is not in Gribben. Reynolds was a journalist and historian for Albany, NY.
“M . Clemens directs me to write for him and say that he has so many calls upon his purse, for one cause or another, that he must decline your invitation to endow a scholarship in your university” [MTP]. Note: the university in question was Alfred University. See below entry from Crandall.
M.H. Crandall wrote on Alfred University, Alfred, NY to ask Sam to endown a “Mark Twain Scholarship” for $1,000 [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: ”Mr. Clemens is writing maxims. / Mr. Clemens and Jean dined with Mrs. And the Misses Stickney and came home early” [MTP TS 83]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Wrote Mr. Greene that Mr. Clemens will be glad to have the refusal of this house for another Summer” [MTP TS 25].
Charles J. Langdon wrote to Sam, having just paid taxes on the Genesee Street property, Buffalo; Sam’s third owing was $271.06. He had just returned from a trip up the Great Lakes [MTP].
R.W. Mastick, of Mastick-Morrison Co. Leather, San Francisco, wrote to ask Sam if he could send the “Christmas Greeting” given to the press during the war with Spain. He’d been unable to find it [MTP].
Cuyler Reynolds wrote on The Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society letterhead to Sam, seeking another copy of TS, as his dog had taken “a decided fancy” to his old copy and “did his best to ‘read, Mark, learn and inwardly digest’ it.” Reynolds wrote after his signature, “Author of Rosamond Tales, which never overtook Tom Sawyer in its sale” [MTP]. Note:, Rosamond Tales (1901) bedtime stories for children by Cuyler Reynolds (1866-1934) is not in Gribben. Reynolds was a journalist and historian for Albany, NY.
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