August 5 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam responded to Roi Cooper Megrue’s request of Aug. 3.
I have your favor of Aug. the 3rd in which I understand Miss Marbury to suggest that I give Mr. Timmory an extension of one year on his contracts with me; also that I grant Mr. Timmory free choice of theatre. I beg you to say to Miss Marbury I am quite willing that she shall make these concessions for me [MTP]. Note: Gabriel Timmory, French playwright.
Harper’s Weekly ran Sam’s “Lantern for Sale,” a burlesque advertisement. A follow up piece in the Aug. 12 issue is also Sam’s [Camfield’s Bibliog.]. Note: see July 11 entry; also Aug.
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This afternoon Mr. Clemens and I went down to the Club to hear Miss Jane Addams speak on Hull House, certain aspects of it. She is so different from the Jane Addams of my imagination —but looks like the one who would accomplish just the sort of thing that she has accomplished.
She speaks readily, pleasantly and has the happy faculty of making good word pictures. (Elsewhere I’ve written more.)
The walk down was through the rocky trail and to a beautiful little wood road, grassy shaded and lovely. Mr. Clemens talked about Mr. Pumpelly’s book and about his account of the Japanese. Mr. Pumpelly was young in those days, and regretted that the Portuguese missionaries who were then trying to get a foot hold in Japan, were bundled out and all Christianity with them. He regretted it then but I don’t think he’d regret it now. As we reached the high road we were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Henderson and walked along in the dust with them. Mr. Clemens sat where he couldn’t hear very well for Miss Addams speaks very rapidly and the walk in the heat made him tired, and so we left soon after the talk was ended. As we walked slowly home—all up hill—Mr. Clemens spoke of the wonderful statue of Buddha in Japan and of how it inspired his reverence always. It’s the only religious symbol that ever does inspire it [MTP TS 85-86].
Note: Jane Addams (1860-1935), founder of the Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house, was a prominent reformer of the Progressive Era, and the first American woman to be a public philosopher. See Oct. 9 for info. on Pumpelly, who had published Notes of a Five Years’ Journey Around the World, etc.(1870). Also, Gribben p.562. Sam generally had frowned on women lecturers, which may have had something to do with his leaving right after Addams’ talk.
I have your favor of Aug. the 3rd in which I understand Miss Marbury to suggest that I give Mr. Timmory an extension of one year on his contracts with me; also that I grant Mr. Timmory free choice of theatre. I beg you to say to Miss Marbury I am quite willing that she shall make these concessions for me [MTP]. Note: Gabriel Timmory, French playwright.
Harper’s Weekly ran Sam’s “Lantern for Sale,” a burlesque advertisement. A follow up piece in the Aug. 12 issue is also Sam’s [Camfield’s Bibliog.]. Note: see July 11 entry; also Aug.
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This afternoon Mr. Clemens and I went down to the Club to hear Miss Jane Addams speak on Hull House, certain aspects of it. She is so different from the Jane Addams of my imagination —but looks like the one who would accomplish just the sort of thing that she has accomplished.
She speaks readily, pleasantly and has the happy faculty of making good word pictures. (Elsewhere I’ve written more.)
The walk down was through the rocky trail and to a beautiful little wood road, grassy shaded and lovely. Mr. Clemens talked about Mr. Pumpelly’s book and about his account of the Japanese. Mr. Pumpelly was young in those days, and regretted that the Portuguese missionaries who were then trying to get a foot hold in Japan, were bundled out and all Christianity with them. He regretted it then but I don’t think he’d regret it now. As we reached the high road we were joined by Mr. and Mrs. Henderson and walked along in the dust with them. Mr. Clemens sat where he couldn’t hear very well for Miss Addams speaks very rapidly and the walk in the heat made him tired, and so we left soon after the talk was ended. As we walked slowly home—all up hill—Mr. Clemens spoke of the wonderful statue of Buddha in Japan and of how it inspired his reverence always. It’s the only religious symbol that ever does inspire it [MTP TS 85-86].
Note: Jane Addams (1860-1935), founder of the Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house, was a prominent reformer of the Progressive Era, and the first American woman to be a public philosopher. See Oct. 9 for info. on Pumpelly, who had published Notes of a Five Years’ Journey Around the World, etc.(1870). Also, Gribben p.562. Sam generally had frowned on women lecturers, which may have had something to do with his leaving right after Addams’ talk.
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