September 4 Monday – Len G. Westland wrote from London, Ontario Canada to offer Sam his “sincere admiration” and “best wishes for a long life…I raise my hat to you sir” [MTP]. Note: a day or two later ? Sam replied: “And, I, also, take off my hat to you; and with many thanks to you for what you have said”
Isabel Lyon’s journal:This morning Mr. Clemens sent for me to talk over the arrangements for a talk before some Boston Club—a woman’s club, and he spoke of all that femaleness as a “Bull fight!”
Of course his hair is wonderful and white and beautiful and scintillating, for his brain is all of an exquisite quiver and a piercing look out of his mysterious eyes will sometimes carry such a vital flash with it that you can’t get away from the steady memory of it for hours and hours. You just see it right along and feel the force of that marvelous mind behind it [MTP TS 94].
Paul Kester wrote from London to ask Sam to notify Elisabeth Marbury or her assistant Megrue to secure permission for another Tom Sawyer play. Marbury was also Kester’s dramatic agent, and a Mr. J. Fred Zimmerman wished to produce the play [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:This morning Mr. Clemens sent for me to talk over the arrangements for a talk before some Boston Club—a woman’s club, and he spoke of all that femaleness as a “Bull fight!”
Of course his hair is wonderful and white and beautiful and scintillating, for his brain is all of an exquisite quiver and a piercing look out of his mysterious eyes will sometimes carry such a vital flash with it that you can’t get away from the steady memory of it for hours and hours. You just see it right along and feel the force of that marvelous mind behind it [MTP TS 94].
Paul Kester wrote from London to ask Sam to notify Elisabeth Marbury or her assistant Megrue to secure permission for another Tom Sawyer play. Marbury was also Kester’s dramatic agent, and a Mr. J. Fred Zimmerman wished to produce the play [MTP].
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