September 25 Wednesday – In Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
The trouble with Tom Reed is that he don’t belong to no church & ain’t got no sympathy with suffering. How much would they allow us on an umbrella-display at the Pan-American?
You can have half [MTHHR 473]. Note: a continuation of the “missing umbrella” in-joke.
September 24 Tuesday – The Clemens family was in Elmira, likely at Quarry Farm. Sam wrote to
H.H Rogers:
We shall reach town Thursday Evening—Grosvenor hotel.
If you get the umbrella, don’t send it there, let the Guaranty Trust take care of it for a day or two—get a check for it.
September 23 Monday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
September 22 Sunday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
Sam wrote to C.F. Moberly Bell, acknowledging with gratitude his sending Dr. George Ernest Morrison’s (1862 -1920) book, likely: An Australian in China (1895). Morrison was a correspondent for the London Times in Peking [MTP]. Note: see Gribben’s listing on Morrison, p. 487.
September 21 Saturday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
September 20 Friday – The Clemens family was in Elmira, likely at Quarry Farm. No letters describing their visit with Sue Crane and Charles J. Langdon are extant.
June 20 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “Write Mr. Clarence Gordon & name a Thursday to read an old article. East side House Settlement, 76th St & East River. He will describe how I am to come, & perhaps meet me at one of the points” [NB 44 TS 12]. Note: Sam made no further NB entries until Sept 24, 1901.
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
244 Will & Banner co 6.00
245 H.b. cushman & co 5.15
June 19 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “J.L. Underwood National Arts Club 7.30 | W. 34th near B’way N. side” [NB 44 TS 12].
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Elizabeth W. Gilbert. “It is a charming letter & gives me great pleasure. I think you will write a book some day, & I hope I shall live to read it” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to H.H. Rogers.
June 18 Tuesday – At 4:50 p.m., Sam waited at the Holland House, an eleven-story marble hotel at 5th Ave. and 30th Street, for H.H. Rogers. Urban H. Broughton, Rogers’ son- in-law, came to advise Sam that Rogers was still in Fairhaven and would not return “for a day or two yet” [June 19 to Rogers].
At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Frank Fuller.