September 8 Friday – E. Hampden-Cook, Congregational Minister in Sandbach, Cheshire, England wrote to Sam, upset that many in England were turning away from traditional churches to Christian Science. He’d contacted Chatto & Windus hoping to print Sam’s Christian Science article from the Oct. 1899 Cosmopolitan in a cheap brochure, which he could distribute to the masses. Sam’s English publishers had replied to him that their arrangements would not allow them to give their permission [MTP]. Note: Sam’s response is estimated to be ca. Sept. 18, allowing ten days for Hampden-Cook’s letter to cross the Atlantic.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Such a lot of children were here, and oh, I felt so ill. Headache. They sat down 16 strong—near Mr. Clemens were Raphael Pumpelly, Jerome [sic Gerome] Brush, Fanny Dwight, Miss Sawyer and Gladys Thayer. He could have held all the table and they tucked out their dear young heads like so many turtles all up the line, to catch his words and watch his beloved face and those who were so far away sighed and wished they were near him, and one of them said it, to Jean’s discomfort. They danced after dinner to music from the Aeolion. Jerome [sic Gerome] Brush is quite remarkable in his Tuscan dialect—Italian; he can imitate the contadini very well [MTP TS 95].
Norman Hapgood wrote from Windsor, Vt. to ask Sam to come with Jean for a few days to admire the beauty of their place there [MTP].
Mrs. Edson Moore wrote from Peterboro, N.H. to ask Sam if he might speak before the Epworth League of the M.E. church [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: Such a lot of children were here, and oh, I felt so ill. Headache. They sat down 16 strong—near Mr. Clemens were Raphael Pumpelly, Jerome [sic Gerome] Brush, Fanny Dwight, Miss Sawyer and Gladys Thayer. He could have held all the table and they tucked out their dear young heads like so many turtles all up the line, to catch his words and watch his beloved face and those who were so far away sighed and wished they were near him, and one of them said it, to Jean’s discomfort. They danced after dinner to music from the Aeolion. Jerome [sic Gerome] Brush is quite remarkable in his Tuscan dialect—Italian; he can imitate the contadini very well [MTP TS 95].
Norman Hapgood wrote from Windsor, Vt. to ask Sam to come with Jean for a few days to admire the beauty of their place there [MTP].
Mrs. Edson Moore wrote from Peterboro, N.H. to ask Sam if he might speak before the Epworth League of the M.E. church [MTP].
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