September 5 Thursday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam wrote to daughter Clara, now at the Hotel Victoria, Boston.   

I, also, should have been disappointed dearheart, at your not coming, but that I am aware that there is no occasion to expect you until you arrive. And so while I knew you might come, & was strongly hoping you would, I was not really expecting it. Paine’s conundrum fits you as well as it fits me: “Why is Mr. Clemens’s mind like a time-table?”

“Because it is subject to change without notice.”

However, I knew you hadn’t any business to add the journey to your other & necessary fatigues, therefore I thought it likely [Dr. Robert] Halsey would stop you, as it was his duty to do. You were not in any shape to come among tonsilitis germs safely; & I am glad you kept away from the danger.

Oh yes, I’m very prominent. In the matter of dethroning me you will find you’ve got your work cut out for you, my dearest.

I want to hear the song. I hope it will meet your highest expectations. Also I want to hear you sing that haunting ballad, “Loch Lomond.”

I was intending to go & visit the Doubledays & the President (on business) ten days hence, but have given it up, the business being not ready.

I shall probably run up to Fairhaven for a day, a week hence, on the Jamestown business.

Dorothy arrived yesterday evening, to stay 6 days, & is the same Dorothy—which is high promise.

With lots of hugs & kisses, & hoping that you are still improving— [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “We drove over the Long Pond to call on Mrs. Townsend” [MTP TS 100].

Charles, for Boyajian Brothers, Oriental rugs wrote to advise Sam that one of his rugs had a

large hole, which would require cutting and resizing the carpet to fix [MTP].

Harper & Brothers wrote to advise that they’d written to Miss Jackson “declining her adaptation of” P&P; that the publication by another house would be copyright violation. “In this connection, we would say that there might be a field some time for an adaptation of this and other of your works for schools” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “Their decision as regards Miss Jackson is entirely correct”