July 19 before – In Dublin, N.H. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to George Porter. “Mr. Clemens has read the play & is greatly interested. He would like to talk with you. Name your day & hour” [MTP]. See July 23 entry.
July 19 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: I left at 6:40 this morning to drive to Marlboro, and go thence by trolley and train to New York, to buy clothes for Jean. Mother got on the train at Hartford and went as far as New Haven with me, and we had such a dear good talk.
The heat is terrible. It was 94 in the shade when I reached N.Y. and the heat of the pavements blistered my feet.
I went down to the house to find Katie and her niece, Marguerite. The house all torn up, they’re putting in furnaces [MTP TS 80].
Ralph W. Ashcroft wrote on Koy-Lo Co. letterhead to Sam. “Mr. Baldwin told me yesterday that the Plasmon case will come up before Judge Holt, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, next week, and will be finally decided…some time this month either for or against us.” Ashcroft wrote that Baldwin wanted to appeal if it went against them. Ashcroft also enclosed a statement of his expenditures re; the Plasmon controversy, totaling $1,269.18 [MTP]. Note: William Woodward Baldwin, Plasmon attorney.
Frederick A. Duneka wrote to Sam, thinking it “great news and splendid” that Eve would tell her story in the fashion of Adam’s Diary. The Niagara Falls references would be “melted away” as Sam suggested. He hoped to see it soon to arrange an artist for the magazine and book pictures [MTP].
George Murray for The Standard, a Montreal paper, wrote to Sam. He was going to make the paper a weekly and asked for “a few lines, in prose or verse, over your own name or for anonymous publication, on any subject,” etc. He left payment amount up to Sam [MTP].
George Porter wrote to Sam asking to call next Saturday a.m. to see him about his play on JA [MTP]. Sam wrote on the note, “Told him to come Sunday or after, & give me notice”
J.R. Van Wormer for Lincoln Safe Deposit Co. sent a receipt certificate to Sam for depositing for Jean Clemens, “One chest and two tin boxes of valuables” valued at “Two thousand dollars,” for the rent of $2.50 per month [MTP].