October 12 Saturday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam inscribed a copy of JA to Frances E. Greville: “To / The Countess of Warwick / with the warm regards of / her latest & most / devoted admirer / Mark Twain / Tuxedo Park, N.Y. / October 12, 1907.” [MTP]. Note: see IVL below.  

Isabel Lyon’s journal: (Clipping here) / Miss Dix of 57 West 57 St. will entertain the Countess of Warwick and S.L. Clemens today at luncheon at Delmonicoes. / (June 1937—nearly 30 years later, and I am giving the clipping to Eulabee Dix) [MTP TS 114].

J. Pease Norton for the American Health League wrote to invite Sam to serve in the “Authors’ League of the Committee of One Hundred.” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “In declining to serve my answer is that I am 72 old & have a sufficience of compulsory activities without adding to them”

Lewis Elmer Trescott (Poet Lariat) wrote from Glenwood, L.I. to advise Sam, that the “poet lariatship which you conferred upon Mr. Cutter, has been perpetuated and that I am his successor.” Several poems were enclosed [MTP]. Note: Trescott’s photo is on several poems; he’s a young man of about 25-30.

In Sam’s A.D. he recalled Charles Dickens reading David Copperfield. Dickens “did not merely read, but also acted. His reading of that storm scene in which Steerforth lost his life was so vivid, and so full of energetic action, that the house was carried off its feet, so to speak” [Gribben 188]. Note: MTP lists this A.D. date as “conjectural.”