November 25 Saturday – The Hartford Courant ran an interview, “Mark Twain at 70” p.16.
Scharnhorst (p. 511-16 & n.1) explains it was attributed to Samuel E. Moffett but actually written by Clemens.
Louise Forsslund wrote Sam from Sayville, L.I., N.Y. to confirm a story her father told of traveling with a young man named Clemens in 1849 in Sacramento [MTP]. Note: Sam’s reply ca. Nov. 28.
The New York Times, p. BR812 ran a squib on the coming birthday celebration, “Mark Twain’s Banquet.”
Invitations to the Mark Twain banquet Mr. George Harvey is giving at Delmonico’s, Dec. 5, to celebrate the great humorist’s 70th birthday, are naturally confined to writers of imaginative literature. There will be 150 persons present, as it is, including some of Mr. Clemens’s personal friends, and a few men of distinction in other walks of life. “Imaginative literature,” as it exists to-day, will be largely and brilliantly represented.
Carl H. Fowler for the Oppenheimer Institute wrote noting Sam’s one-time interest and “enclosing a booklet just published showing results obtained at one of our free clinics in this city” [MTP].
Elizabeth Porter Gould wrote from Boston to Sam, thanking him for “your kind suspense, as to the origin of the lines” (unspecified) and wishing she’d had the “pleasure of taking you by the hand when you were in Boston” [MTP].
J. Nelson Parker for the Beacon Society wrote to Sam, most anxious for Clemens to be their guest for their Annual Meeting in Dec. [MTP]. Note: this enclosed in Pearmain to Clemens Nov. 26
Scharnhorst (p. 511-16 & n.1) explains it was attributed to Samuel E. Moffett but actually written by Clemens.
Louise Forsslund wrote Sam from Sayville, L.I., N.Y. to confirm a story her father told of traveling with a young man named Clemens in 1849 in Sacramento [MTP]. Note: Sam’s reply ca. Nov. 28.
The New York Times, p. BR812 ran a squib on the coming birthday celebration, “Mark Twain’s Banquet.”
Invitations to the Mark Twain banquet Mr. George Harvey is giving at Delmonico’s, Dec. 5, to celebrate the great humorist’s 70th birthday, are naturally confined to writers of imaginative literature. There will be 150 persons present, as it is, including some of Mr. Clemens’s personal friends, and a few men of distinction in other walks of life. “Imaginative literature,” as it exists to-day, will be largely and brilliantly represented.
Carl H. Fowler for the Oppenheimer Institute wrote noting Sam’s one-time interest and “enclosing a booklet just published showing results obtained at one of our free clinics in this city” [MTP].
Elizabeth Porter Gould wrote from Boston to Sam, thanking him for “your kind suspense, as to the origin of the lines” (unspecified) and wishing she’d had the “pleasure of taking you by the hand when you were in Boston” [MTP].
J. Nelson Parker for the Beacon Society wrote to Sam, most anxious for Clemens to be their guest for their Annual Meeting in Dec. [MTP]. Note: this enclosed in Pearmain to Clemens Nov. 26
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