June 25 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
Dear Charlotte, I am called from this solitude to that of the society of Katy & the butler at No. 21 for a day or two, & am due to arrive there at 6 p.m. to-morrow. If you haven’t registered any crimes against me in the past ten days I hope you will be so good & so kind as to appear at 21 Wednesday morning at 10—if that isn’t too early for you—& let me look at you. Could you? Would you? Will you? [MTP].
Sam also gave the following memo to Lyon: “Send Ms. To Coan when it comes” [MTP]. Note: Dr. Titus M. Coan (b. 1836).
Sam also inscribed a copy of Eve’s Diary to Harriet E. Whitmore: “Dear Mrs. Whitmore— / This— / with the compliments of / The Authoress / & the love of / The Translator. / Dublin, N.H., June 25/06” [MTP].
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: Only hearsay evidence that there is to be a Heaven hereafter —Christ does not prove that He is God—Takes up the human race—Man a machine, & not responsible for his actions [MTP: Autodict2]. Note: if Clemens truly believed this latter idea, then why did he suffer from so much guilt? Also, Christ claimed to be God and refused to give those “a sign” that it was so, due to their unbelief.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Some subite [?] thing cast into my blood and the knowledge that Mr. Clemens was going to be nervous this morning and he was. I stood outside his door, not wishing to enter—and on every count he was at odds. Jean’s slowness in sending for her bonds; the mail—the damned damned mail; the trains tomorrow; his clothes today; the Harpers; this devilish Dublin; Miss Hobby’s slowness. Oh everything. His eyes were shining, his cheeks were flushed. He is often animated by a devastating something in these days—a something destroying his peace of mind. The drama of life I suppose it is. [inserted in pencil: Charlotte Teller]
We sat on the porch after luncheon & Mr. Paine came to make some photographs. Then Gerald Thayer came fresh from his West Indian trip & his adventures there. Gladys came too & we had music. Beethoven & the great Tschaikowski movement & Schubert. I walked with Mr. Paine later over to the cottage & he comforted my weeping mood. He is a rare good man & how I have needed him this year [MTP TS 90]. Note: The last lines about Paine, as well as the first six lines of the June 26 entry, are shown in the TS to have parallel diagonal lines through the text. Also noted in part by Madsen 69n12. Paine had been a professional photographer at one time.
Poultney Bigelow wrote from his farm, “Malden on Hudson.” He’d been reading TS and HF to neighbors. “Well, there’s no more news in that—but now I’m a farmer here on this Homestead where my father was born and where I’m absorbed in simple things. / Have just finished a string of articles on the Panama things for the COSMOPOLITAN magazine.” The book of verse he’d sent to Clemens had come back to him [MTP].
John Larkin, NYC attorney wrote to Sam, sending a check installment of $105.39 on the Archer County, Texas property [MTP]. Note: see Vol. I for the history of this land that Livy purchased.
Dear Charlotte, I am called from this solitude to that of the society of Katy & the butler at No. 21 for a day or two, & am due to arrive there at 6 p.m. to-morrow. If you haven’t registered any crimes against me in the past ten days I hope you will be so good & so kind as to appear at 21 Wednesday morning at 10—if that isn’t too early for you—& let me look at you. Could you? Would you? Will you? [MTP].
Sam also gave the following memo to Lyon: “Send Ms. To Coan when it comes” [MTP]. Note: Dr. Titus M. Coan (b. 1836).
Sam also inscribed a copy of Eve’s Diary to Harriet E. Whitmore: “Dear Mrs. Whitmore— / This— / with the compliments of / The Authoress / & the love of / The Translator. / Dublin, N.H., June 25/06” [MTP].
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: Only hearsay evidence that there is to be a Heaven hereafter —Christ does not prove that He is God—Takes up the human race—Man a machine, & not responsible for his actions [MTP: Autodict2]. Note: if Clemens truly believed this latter idea, then why did he suffer from so much guilt? Also, Christ claimed to be God and refused to give those “a sign” that it was so, due to their unbelief.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Some subite [?] thing cast into my blood and the knowledge that Mr. Clemens was going to be nervous this morning and he was. I stood outside his door, not wishing to enter—and on every count he was at odds. Jean’s slowness in sending for her bonds; the mail—the damned damned mail; the trains tomorrow; his clothes today; the Harpers; this devilish Dublin; Miss Hobby’s slowness. Oh everything. His eyes were shining, his cheeks were flushed. He is often animated by a devastating something in these days—a something destroying his peace of mind. The drama of life I suppose it is. [inserted in pencil: Charlotte Teller]
We sat on the porch after luncheon & Mr. Paine came to make some photographs. Then Gerald Thayer came fresh from his West Indian trip & his adventures there. Gladys came too & we had music. Beethoven & the great Tschaikowski movement & Schubert. I walked with Mr. Paine later over to the cottage & he comforted my weeping mood. He is a rare good man & how I have needed him this year [MTP TS 90]. Note: The last lines about Paine, as well as the first six lines of the June 26 entry, are shown in the TS to have parallel diagonal lines through the text. Also noted in part by Madsen 69n12. Paine had been a professional photographer at one time.
Poultney Bigelow wrote from his farm, “Malden on Hudson.” He’d been reading TS and HF to neighbors. “Well, there’s no more news in that—but now I’m a farmer here on this Homestead where my father was born and where I’m absorbed in simple things. / Have just finished a string of articles on the Panama things for the COSMOPOLITAN magazine.” The book of verse he’d sent to Clemens had come back to him [MTP].
John Larkin, NYC attorney wrote to Sam, sending a check installment of $105.39 on the Archer County, Texas property [MTP]. Note: see Vol. I for the history of this land that Livy purchased.
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