October 2 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Frederick A. Duneka of Harper’s.
I have just finished a short story which I “greatly admire,” & so will you—“A Horse’s Tale”— about 15,000 words, at a rough guess. It has good fun in it, & several characters, & is lively. I shall finish revising & re-revising it & re-revising it in a few days or more, then Jean will type
Don’t you think you can get it into the Jan. & Feb. numbers & issue it as a dollar booklet just after the middle of Jan when you issue the Feb. number?
It ought to be ably illustrated.
Why not sell simultaneous rights, for this once, to the Ladies’ Home Journal or Collier’s, or both, & recoup yourself?—for I would like to get it to classes that can’t afford Harper’s. Although it doesn’t preach, there’s a sermon concealed in it [MTP].
Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Katharine I. Harrison, asking for a transfer of $1,000 from the Guaranty Trust Co. to the Lincoln National Bank, and adding Sam was better now than he had been [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Mr. Clemens likes the idea of playing the war songs and bugle calls on the aeolion to accompany a part of the Horse’s Tale, and we have practiced it until it is a ‘stirring show’ as Mr. Clemens calls it” [MTP TS 103]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “ ‘A Horse’s Tale’ finished and Mr. Clemens had the Bugle Calls practiced on the orchestrelle. / Telephoned Mr. Allison about electric lighting for the Upton house which is wired for it [MTP TS 30].
Daniel Edwards Kennedy wrote from Chestnut Hill, Mass. to ask Sam where he might find “the seven original jokes, on which all are founded?” [MTP]. Note: see Sam’s reply through Miss Lyon in Oct. 9 entry.
George H. Daniels for Lotos Club wrote to announce a dinner for Joseph Hodges Choate, former ambassador to the Court of St. James, on Saturday night, Oct. 21 at 6.30 p.m. [MTP].
I have just finished a short story which I “greatly admire,” & so will you—“A Horse’s Tale”— about 15,000 words, at a rough guess. It has good fun in it, & several characters, & is lively. I shall finish revising & re-revising it & re-revising it in a few days or more, then Jean will type
Don’t you think you can get it into the Jan. & Feb. numbers & issue it as a dollar booklet just after the middle of Jan when you issue the Feb. number?
It ought to be ably illustrated.
Why not sell simultaneous rights, for this once, to the Ladies’ Home Journal or Collier’s, or both, & recoup yourself?—for I would like to get it to classes that can’t afford Harper’s. Although it doesn’t preach, there’s a sermon concealed in it [MTP].
Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Katharine I. Harrison, asking for a transfer of $1,000 from the Guaranty Trust Co. to the Lincoln National Bank, and adding Sam was better now than he had been [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Mr. Clemens likes the idea of playing the war songs and bugle calls on the aeolion to accompany a part of the Horse’s Tale, and we have practiced it until it is a ‘stirring show’ as Mr. Clemens calls it” [MTP TS 103]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “ ‘A Horse’s Tale’ finished and Mr. Clemens had the Bugle Calls practiced on the orchestrelle. / Telephoned Mr. Allison about electric lighting for the Upton house which is wired for it [MTP TS 30].
Daniel Edwards Kennedy wrote from Chestnut Hill, Mass. to ask Sam where he might find “the seven original jokes, on which all are founded?” [MTP]. Note: see Sam’s reply through Miss Lyon in Oct. 9 entry.
George H. Daniels for Lotos Club wrote to announce a dinner for Joseph Hodges Choate, former ambassador to the Court of St. James, on Saturday night, Oct. 21 at 6.30 p.m. [MTP].
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