June 8 Monday – Clara Clemens’ 34th birthday. Clara was in London on tour.

William Fitz-Simon wrote from Tuxedo Park, NY to Sam.

I thank you most heartily for your letter. I appreciate what you say and even now can understand the deep truth you express. You honor me greatly in writing me as you have done and I am so glad because of your expression of friendship. You will allow me to say that I have regarded it as a great privilege to have had an opportunity during your stay here to learn something of that great humanness—that great heart that is the mainspring of your life. Miss Morgan is very anxious to meet you… [MTP].

T.H. Green wrote a three-page typed letter from Minneapolis about his sister discovering a note about Clemens’ grandmother, Pamela Goggin Clemens, during a search of Virginia genealogical records [MTP]. Note: IVL on letter: “Many thanks for your very pleasant letter. / Answd June 11, 08”

Ferris Greenslet for the Aldrich Memorial Museum wrote a short note on Houghton Mifflin notepaper to Sam. “It is great pleasure ot us all to know that you can be present at Portsmouth on June 30th. You don’t say anything about the matter of the little talk on Aldrich as a Wit, but I shall venture to assume that your silence gives consent…”[MTP].