September 27 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Mr. Clemens worked all day on “The Horse’s Tale,” until at a little after 4 o’clock I went up to tell him that Mr. Joe Smith and Mr. Harry Greene were down stairs. When I poked my head in at the door he was flushed with the interest and excitement of this work and one excited bare foot peeked out from under the sheet. It was just as inspired as all the rest of him. He came down and after Jean went off to the Brushes he talked delightfully about the Japanese and the Tricky Peace and about the Equitable scandal and he made Joe Smith curl up with laughter, and his nice droopy left eye was eloquent with his appreciation of Mr. Clemens the rare [MTP TS 102].
Byron Williams of the Chicago Press Club wrote to ask Sam to “make a short address at the banquet tendered the Chicago Press Club by the New York Press Club in New York on the evening of October 12th” [MTP]. Note: Sam’s response is estimated to be ca. Sept. 30.
H.H. Rogers wrote from New York to Sam, that he was returning Lilian Aldrich’s Sept. 15 letter; he could not undertake support for the hospital she’d asked about “because of my obligations in other directions. We are waiting to hear from you about going to Fairhaven” [MTHHR 601]. Note: See Sept. 26 from Rogers.
William Travers Jerome wrote two letters to Sam. The first mentions Sam’s willingness to sign a petition for Jerome’s nomination, so a blank petition was enclosed. The second was sent with a a printed copy of “The Jerome Nominators,” with Clemens and 40 other gentlemen listed. This letter of nominators was sent to “35,000 merchants and professional men in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, together with copies of the petition” [MTP].
Vivian Burnett for McClure, Phillips & Co. wrote to ask Sam if he had “any time to read books nowadays?” and that they were sending him Back Home by Eugene Wood (1860-1923) for his comment [MTP]. Note: See Gribben p.782.
Mr. Clemens worked all day on “The Horse’s Tale,” until at a little after 4 o’clock I went up to tell him that Mr. Joe Smith and Mr. Harry Greene were down stairs. When I poked my head in at the door he was flushed with the interest and excitement of this work and one excited bare foot peeked out from under the sheet. It was just as inspired as all the rest of him. He came down and after Jean went off to the Brushes he talked delightfully about the Japanese and the Tricky Peace and about the Equitable scandal and he made Joe Smith curl up with laughter, and his nice droopy left eye was eloquent with his appreciation of Mr. Clemens the rare [MTP TS 102].
Byron Williams of the Chicago Press Club wrote to ask Sam to “make a short address at the banquet tendered the Chicago Press Club by the New York Press Club in New York on the evening of October 12th” [MTP]. Note: Sam’s response is estimated to be ca. Sept. 30.
H.H. Rogers wrote from New York to Sam, that he was returning Lilian Aldrich’s Sept. 15 letter; he could not undertake support for the hospital she’d asked about “because of my obligations in other directions. We are waiting to hear from you about going to Fairhaven” [MTHHR 601]. Note: See Sept. 26 from Rogers.
William Travers Jerome wrote two letters to Sam. The first mentions Sam’s willingness to sign a petition for Jerome’s nomination, so a blank petition was enclosed. The second was sent with a a printed copy of “The Jerome Nominators,” with Clemens and 40 other gentlemen listed. This letter of nominators was sent to “35,000 merchants and professional men in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, together with copies of the petition” [MTP].
Vivian Burnett for McClure, Phillips & Co. wrote to ask Sam if he had “any time to read books nowadays?” and that they were sending him Back Home by Eugene Wood (1860-1923) for his comment [MTP]. Note: See Gribben p.782.
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