June 27 Saturday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Augusta M.D. Ogden in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

Dear Mrs. Ogden: / It is a great pleasure to me to hear that I am missed. I could not want a pleasanter compliment. Last autumn when the panic came I tried to stop the building of this house, my idea being to get a house in Tuxedo again; but the contracts had all been signed & I had to go on to a finish—very much to my regret. However, the matter has turned out well. I saw this region & this house for the first time ten days ago, & am already infatuated with both. There are no hot days; & as for the house, I like it better than any I have ever lived in. I shan’t leave it any more. It is a better winter house than the New York one, therefore I shall give up the New York one & stay here permanently. I was afraid my daughter Clara might not like this arrangement, but she has cabled her approval from London.

I was vindictively sorry to have to miss the Fitz Simons [sic Fitz-Simon] wedding, but I could not get away at that time.

With love & all good wishes to you & yours, … [MTP]. Note: See June 5 for details on the wedding, which took place on June 24.

On or after June 27 Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to an unidentified person.

“Mr. Clemens’s permission is not sufficient. By the enclosed letter you will see that the publishers are most unwilling, which Mr. Clemens regrets. Mr. Clemens wants them to visit him here when next they come to America as he does not expect to be in N.Y. anymore to live” [MTP].

 Phillip Nichols Sunderland wrote to Sam.

Dear Sir:—

      Having been dumb in your presence on the occasion of the memorable visit to your house to-day, I feel constrained to express to you, in some measure, our feeling of gratitude.

      It has been an interesting year to us all, and from the time that Mr. Lounsbury began to shoot up the ledges last June, every man of us has felt a personal pride in the fact that he was working for you.  Having enjoyed the privilege of doing our best for you, and hoping that you would be pleased with the result, you must know that it was a supreme satisfaction to go there and see you in your house, and to have you tell us that you liked it.

      It has all been a most unusual and a most delightful experience [MTP]. Note: Phillip was the son of William Webb Sunderland, a three-generation family of contractors. Harry A. Lounsbury was a Redding man who aided in the construction.

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “Mr. & Mrs. Littleton, Judge & Mrs. Moreau” [MTP: IVL TS 54].

Sam’s new guestbook  contains entries for the following:

Name

Address

Date

Remarks

Elizabeth Richards Moreau  – – – – – – – – June 27

J. T. Moreau (Judge)  – – – – – – – – “      “

Maud Littleton    nd 2nd st. & 5th Ave New York “      “

Martin W. Littleton

Note: the original guestbook was “installed” on June 27. On Dec. 28 Sam transcribed most of the entries in the original guestbook from June 27 to Dec. 26 into the “new” guestbook, a Christmas gift from Mary B. Rogers..