November 7 Saturday – In Redding, Conn. on this day or Nov. 8 Sam sent another receipt on his library notice to Frederick A. Duneka for $1 [MTP].
Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Mrs. Lillian Duneka Also her husband Of Harper & Brothers November 7-8
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Mr. and Mrs. Duneka arrived this morning, and such welcome guests as they are. Unhappily we couldn’t hear the copyright talk between the King and Mr. Duneka, because they took themselves off to the Gorge. In the afternoon we all went for a walk, trying to find a level one, for Mrs. Duneka’s heart is weak [MTP: IVL TS 78].
James Brent Clemens wrote from 603 Fifth Ave., NYC: “Dear Cousin Mark: / The enclosed letter was a part of my larger mail to-day and it was accidentally opened before the mistake was discovered. I remail it promptly to your new address with …my deep regret at the occurance. / We all hope that you are enjoying perfect health, and, that we may again enjoy the pleasure of seeing you sometime during the winter” [MTP]. Note: “Ans. Nov. 16 MLH”
C.S. Ashton wrote from Brighton, England to Sam. “I am about (as an amateur) to give an ‘Evening with Mark Twain’ to a literary society in this town and would like to be able to tell my audience that my hero is still going strong and suffering from nothing worse than an occasional burglary!” [MTP]. Note: “Ans. Nov. 20 MLH”
The Outlook Co. sent an engraved invitation announcing that Theodore Roosevelt, President of the U.S. “will on March 5th, 1909, become a Member of the Editorial Staff of The Outlook which will thereafter be the exclusive channel for his writings on Political Social and Industrial Topics” [MTP]. Note: Twain wrote on the notice: “Now if the Outlook people are good business they’ll water their stock & get out”
Jerome M. Sinsheimer wrote from NYC to Sam, noting he’d been the “happy discoverer” of Adam’s diary and that while reading Washington Irving’s History of New York he “observed in chapter III that he states that someone in the future would discover the daybook of Noah and would publish it. / In light of your previous archeological researches, does this not point to you as the proper person to enlighten us?” [MTP]. Note: it had been Sam’s intention to write Noah’s Diary but it was never published.