July 20 Thursday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Ralph W. Ashcroft.
Appeal the case, as Mr. Baldwin advises, if it goes against us. I suggest that you do write Mr. Broughton & ask him to keep fresh in his memory the substance of Wheeler & Hammond’s remarks about your capacity as a liar, etc., that day at the luncheon at the Midday Club. It was most unfair treatment of an absent man before strangers; Broughton is a gentleman by birth, breeding, & nature & cannot have sympathy with that kind of conduct. You are free to say I strongly advised you to write him, if you like… [MTP: Christie’s East catalogs, Nov. 12, 1997 Item 24]. Note: See entries: Dec. 1901, Mar. 17, 1902, May 1903, Aug. 1904 regarding warring factions within the American side of the Plasmon Co.
Sam also wrote two letters to Frederick A. Duneka. The first: Good. Adam’s Diary , revised, corrected and improved, is ready to go to you & the artist. Miss Lyon will start it along when she returns. I have been waiting several days to see if Eve wishes to add anything to her Diary, but thus far she is silent. If she doesn’t speak between now & Sunday, I shall consider that she isn’t going to say anything more—then Miss Lyon will mail her Diary to you along with Adam revised.
Ever so many thanks for the razors, which are fine [MTP].
The second: Miss Lyon sent the enclosed crossed-out plagiarism to you, I think or to the Weekly, —but she is out of reach, in New York & won’t be back before to-morrow night.
But never mind, all I want is, that you shall burn it & print the enclosed “Lantern for Sale” in the Weekly instead.
I mean to STOP rushing things off before they’ve had a chance to get to the wastebasket where they belong …. [MTP]. Note: See July 11 and Aug 5 entries.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Last evening Wallis and I dined at Cecchina’s in her nice little garden restaurant, and Wallis made some faces at the sour wine. Then we had our usual stroll up 5th Avenue. I just had to have a hansom to do all the shopping that was on my list, and all day I went steadily. The heat is exhausting [MTP TS 81]. Note: Wallis is unidentified.
George B. Harvey, just back from England wrote to Sam that the Harpers shop was “somewhat of a hospital,” with Leigh down with fever and Duneka “pretty well fagged out.” He was happy about the forthcoming Eve’s Diary [MTP].
Appeal the case, as Mr. Baldwin advises, if it goes against us. I suggest that you do write Mr. Broughton & ask him to keep fresh in his memory the substance of Wheeler & Hammond’s remarks about your capacity as a liar, etc., that day at the luncheon at the Midday Club. It was most unfair treatment of an absent man before strangers; Broughton is a gentleman by birth, breeding, & nature & cannot have sympathy with that kind of conduct. You are free to say I strongly advised you to write him, if you like… [MTP: Christie’s East catalogs, Nov. 12, 1997 Item 24]. Note: See entries: Dec. 1901, Mar. 17, 1902, May 1903, Aug. 1904 regarding warring factions within the American side of the Plasmon Co.
Sam also wrote two letters to Frederick A. Duneka. The first: Good. Adam’s Diary , revised, corrected and improved, is ready to go to you & the artist. Miss Lyon will start it along when she returns. I have been waiting several days to see if Eve wishes to add anything to her Diary, but thus far she is silent. If she doesn’t speak between now & Sunday, I shall consider that she isn’t going to say anything more—then Miss Lyon will mail her Diary to you along with Adam revised.
Ever so many thanks for the razors, which are fine [MTP].
The second: Miss Lyon sent the enclosed crossed-out plagiarism to you, I think or to the Weekly, —but she is out of reach, in New York & won’t be back before to-morrow night.
But never mind, all I want is, that you shall burn it & print the enclosed “Lantern for Sale” in the Weekly instead.
I mean to STOP rushing things off before they’ve had a chance to get to the wastebasket where they belong …. [MTP]. Note: See July 11 and Aug 5 entries.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Last evening Wallis and I dined at Cecchina’s in her nice little garden restaurant, and Wallis made some faces at the sour wine. Then we had our usual stroll up 5th Avenue. I just had to have a hansom to do all the shopping that was on my list, and all day I went steadily. The heat is exhausting [MTP TS 81]. Note: Wallis is unidentified.
George B. Harvey, just back from England wrote to Sam that the Harpers shop was “somewhat of a hospital,” with Leigh down with fever and Duneka “pretty well fagged out.” He was happy about the forthcoming Eve’s Diary [MTP].
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