June 22 Friday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Upton Sinclair.
In dictating the morning’s chap in my auto one day last week I uttered a paragraph which indicates that I realize the magnitude & effectiveness of the earthquake which “The Jungle” has set going under the Canned Polecat Trust of Chicago.
Also it is noticeable that at last Europe is getting uneasy about the condition of our commercial morals and is even beginning to wonder if we really have any. The Sun’s London correspondent undertaker. / Sincerely Yours [MTP]. Note: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), prolific author who became famous for The Jungle (1906) an expose of the meat-packing industry. He was labeled a “Muckraker.”
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: The brutal Russian massacres of the Jews—Compares ancient & modern massacres—Tendency of present generation to turn its attention to war—Evil influence of the Bible upon children—Present God & religion will not last [MTP: Autodict2].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This evening a lot came in for supper & charades. But first there was dictating in the morning, more theology & then after luncheon we sat on the porch & Mr. Clemens read the very first autobiography beginning, written many years ago, about 1877[-]9—44 typewritten pages & telling of his boyhood days, & the farm & the joys of living in. He was deeply moved as he read on & on.
Those who came for charades were Mr. Brush, & Gerome & Nancy & Tribly, Fannie Dwight & Louise Hunnewell, Hildegarde & Gerard Henderson, Eleanor Cabot & a friend of hers. Mr. Clemens was one captain, Mr. Brush the other, & Mr. Clemens’s team went out first to act TELEGRAF. Their next word was Intoxicate. Mr. Clemens is a great actor. He inspired those young people & could have done the whole thing all by himself. In the whole word Intoxicate, he & Gerome came in together, locked arms, hats on the side of their heads, & gloriously, roaring drunk. Mr. Clemens had on Jean’s black tam—as the family physician in “toxic” he was very funny—for he blew up the log-of-wood baby with the bellows—reversing its function & calling it a stomach pump—& he acted, her really acted [MTP TS 88].
Aubrey Boucicault (1868-1913) for the Green Room Club, NYC wrote to Sam to ask for signed volumes for the Club’s library. George Bernard Shaw and George Ade had already sent books [MTP]. Note: The Green Room Club of London was primarily for actors, est. in 1877 by none other than the great Henry Irving. Evidently several functions were held with corresponding clubs in New York. Aubrey was the son of the late Dion Boucicault (1820- 1890), who was born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. See entries for Dion in Vol I & II. On the inside of the letter Lyon wrote, “Mr. Clemens is just leaving Dublin for 10 days—but he will comply with pleasure when he gets back.”
Brander Matthews wrote to compliment Sam on his piece about Howells [MTP].
In dictating the morning’s chap in my auto one day last week I uttered a paragraph which indicates that I realize the magnitude & effectiveness of the earthquake which “The Jungle” has set going under the Canned Polecat Trust of Chicago.
Also it is noticeable that at last Europe is getting uneasy about the condition of our commercial morals and is even beginning to wonder if we really have any. The Sun’s London correspondent undertaker. / Sincerely Yours [MTP]. Note: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), prolific author who became famous for The Jungle (1906) an expose of the meat-packing industry. He was labeled a “Muckraker.”
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: The brutal Russian massacres of the Jews—Compares ancient & modern massacres—Tendency of present generation to turn its attention to war—Evil influence of the Bible upon children—Present God & religion will not last [MTP: Autodict2].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This evening a lot came in for supper & charades. But first there was dictating in the morning, more theology & then after luncheon we sat on the porch & Mr. Clemens read the very first autobiography beginning, written many years ago, about 1877[-]9—44 typewritten pages & telling of his boyhood days, & the farm & the joys of living in. He was deeply moved as he read on & on.
Those who came for charades were Mr. Brush, & Gerome & Nancy & Tribly, Fannie Dwight & Louise Hunnewell, Hildegarde & Gerard Henderson, Eleanor Cabot & a friend of hers. Mr. Clemens was one captain, Mr. Brush the other, & Mr. Clemens’s team went out first to act TELEGRAF. Their next word was Intoxicate. Mr. Clemens is a great actor. He inspired those young people & could have done the whole thing all by himself. In the whole word Intoxicate, he & Gerome came in together, locked arms, hats on the side of their heads, & gloriously, roaring drunk. Mr. Clemens had on Jean’s black tam—as the family physician in “toxic” he was very funny—for he blew up the log-of-wood baby with the bellows—reversing its function & calling it a stomach pump—& he acted, her really acted [MTP TS 88].
Aubrey Boucicault (1868-1913) for the Green Room Club, NYC wrote to Sam to ask for signed volumes for the Club’s library. George Bernard Shaw and George Ade had already sent books [MTP]. Note: The Green Room Club of London was primarily for actors, est. in 1877 by none other than the great Henry Irving. Evidently several functions were held with corresponding clubs in New York. Aubrey was the son of the late Dion Boucicault (1820- 1890), who was born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. See entries for Dion in Vol I & II. On the inside of the letter Lyon wrote, “Mr. Clemens is just leaving Dublin for 10 days—but he will comply with pleasure when he gets back.”
Brander Matthews wrote to compliment Sam on his piece about Howells [MTP].
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