March 2 Thursday – Jean Clemens and Katy Leary were in Dublin, N.H. where they previewed Henry Copley Greene’s house, approving it for the summer rental. Jean stayed one night with Mr. & Mrs. Abbott Thayer, likely this evening or the next, as Isabel Lyon met Jean on Mar. 4 in Hartford. See her journal entries for Mar. 2, 3 & 4.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: I’m on the train now going up to Hartford. I thought I was late coming through the subway tunnel with Mother, so we roared goodbye at each other savagely, but kept right on the same direction and I turned around just in time to see Saint Mother fall up the subway stairs in her dear haste to keep up with savage horrid me. Then we laughed. The country is snowy and beautiful. It’s so nice of the oaks to keep their pretty brown leaves on all winter. Jean is up at Dublin with Katie. Man behind me suggests to girl with him that she tie a string around her ankle to remind her of him. She giggles [MTP: TS 42].

The N.Y. City Post Office wrote to Sam. “Your kind letter of 28th ultimo [not extant], duly received and I have given special instructions that all mail matter directed to you at New York City without definite or local address shall hereafter be delivered at No. 21 Fifth Avenue, as you request” [MTP]. Note: signed “W.R.W” was William R. Willcox (b. 1863), appointed as NYC Postmaster (1905-1907). He was later Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Insert: NY Main P.O. ca. 1905; built in 1880 demolished in 1939; known as “Mullet’s Monstrosity.”

Sam’s essay “Dr. Loeb’s Incredible Discovery” was given this date. Budd writes it was written “sometime after the epigraph date of March 2, 1905, but was not published during Twain’s life. It first appeared in 1923 in Europe and Elsewhere, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine” [Budd, Collected 2: 1009].