May 13 Monday – Sam addressed a letter from Tuxedo Park N.Y. “(Summer residence)” to Harry Windsor Dearborn.
As I have not heard from you I am taking it for granted that Mr. Vanderbilt, on behalf of the [Fulton] Monument Association, has invited Mr. Cleveland already, or will invite him as soon as he gets back from Europe July 1.
And so I have today, by letter, invited Mr. & Mrs. Cleveland to be my guests in the Kanawha; I invite but one other guest.
I propose to sail for Jamestown about mid-afternoon Sept. 22 & arrive at 8 o’clock next morning. Will that be about the correct thing? [MTP]. Note: Sam added he’d just returned from the South where he was very busy. He then added a P.S. outlining the steps for inviting Mr. & Mrs. Grover Cleveland and delivering him via the Kanawha to Jamestown, Va.
Clemens’ A.D. for Jan. 19, 1906 included an added paragraph with this date, concerning the duel and death of Felice Cavallotti (1842-1898), “poet, orator, satirist, statesman, patriot… lamented by his countrymen” and killed by Count Ferruccio Macola, editor of Gazzetta di Venezia [AMT 1: 302].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Shoes, Whiskey, Trunk, Ms. for the King who is in Tuxedo, and who telephoned a return message to me this morning when I was finding out the how of things out there. His voice has a sweet plaint over the telephone a timbre that is beautiful. Oh, it is dreadful to leave him alone out there, and to know that he is needing little things, and swearing, oh, swearing terribly at not getting them. I’ll go home at 5:22 [train] this very day.
Went to the Morting Studio with Dearborn [MTP TS 57]. Note: Harry Windsor Dearborn was active in the Fulton Monument Association. Dearborn thanked Sam on May 17 for a “pleasant afternoon,” likely this one.
Robert Lutz wrote from Stuttgart to Sam asking for serial publication of Sam’s auto. In German [MTP]. See May 27 for Lyon’s reply for Sam.
Rose Sherwood wrote from Portland, Ore. to ask if Sam would write more Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn books [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: Answd May 27, 07”