April 9 Wednesday – The Kanawha sailed at 9 a.m.from Old Point Comfort, Va. to N.Y.C. Sam’s notebook: It arrived at 5 p.m. “a brisk run of 165 miles. Caught 5.45 train for home. Telegram sent at 8 yesterday took all day. / Mrs. Bunce at home” [NB 45 TS 9].
Sam’s ship log: “Sailed at 9 a.m. for New York. The yacht was believed to be a good & staunch sea-boat before—she is known to be one now. Arrived off East 23d at 5 pm—a brisk run of 165 miles. Caught 5.45 train for Riverdale. A most delightful month, & everybody in the gang physically & mentally the better for it. Morally— / Mark Twain / Official Logger” [MTP].
Livy’s diary: “Mrs Edward Bunce spent the night with us” [MTP: DV161].
The New York Times (p.1) wasted no time reporting the purchase of the Clemens’ new home:
MARK TWAIN’S NEW HOME.
He Purchases an Estate at Tarrytown for $47,500.
TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Apr. 8.—Mark Twain has purchased the Capt. Casey place and will shortly take possession and make it his home. The estate comprises something like nineteen acres. It is high and beautifully situated, commanding some of the best views along the Hudson. There is a stone mansion, which has been remodeled and modernized, on the property and ample barns and outbuildings.
The announced price of the property is $47,500. This is believed to be the price paid, as it was known the offering price for some time has been $50,000. [Note: Sam wrote on Apr. 14 to Rogers that Livy bought the Casey’s Tarrytown house while he was away, and paid $45,000 for it.]
The ledger books of Chatto & Windus show that 2,000 additional copies of a 6s.0d edition of Joan of Arc, were printed , totaling 8,000 [Welland 238; 1904 Financials file MTP].
April 9 after – Sometime after his return from the cruise, in Riverdale, N.Y., Sam wrote to David Alexander Munro (1844-1910), asst. editor of The North American Review under George B. Harvey. “Do get the Review placed at Denver & on sale there a day or two before May 1. On that date there’s a banquet to Funston there” [MTP]. Note: Sam’s article, “A Defence of General Funston,” ran in the May 1902 issue.