May 4 Monday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam replied to the May 3 from Dorothy Quick.

You are just a dear, you little rascal! I shall be so glad to see you. I shall be downstairs waiting for you at 11.30 when you come.

It was lovely of you to send me the original MS of the story.

We certainly did have good times in Tuxedo, & I guess we will duplicate them in the new house in the country. We’ll start The Author’s League again, & you will dictate & I will be your amanuensis.

Yes, Wednesday will be time enough to let me know whether you can come or not—but I do hope you won’t fail to come, dear heart.

I am watching out for the violets; it is very sweet of you to send them. / With lots of love … [MTP; MTAq 150]. Note: in his Apr. 28 to Quick, Sam had asked her to “come up Saturday after next” (May 9) and to stay over till Monday, May 11. She wrote him shortly about May 6 however (not extant) that she was down with a cold and wanted to postpone the visit until the following weekend.

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “Somebody has put all these sickening ideas into Santa’s head and I feel that my interest in the house is dead forever” [MTP: IVL TS 52].

Arnold Briggs from England wrote a fan letter to Sam. While confessing that American humor seemed “abstruse” to him, he’d just finished “A Horse’s Tale,” which he loved. He closed by asking for an autograph [MTP].

Andrew Lang wrote from Kensington, London. “If you will lay 60s [illegible word] it is all right. I believe he is to be translated, and has only afraid that he may expect his [illegible word], but I will give you what I can find” [MTP]. Note: see Clemens’ Apr. 25 reply to Lang’s non- exant.