December 2 Saturday – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. Sam wrote to Andrew Carnegie.
Dear St. Andrew: / What is your telephone number? I have been trying to get to your house, & look at the family, but it is so far & I rise so late—however, I shall succeed, yet. My telephone address is “3907 Gramercy”—it isn’t in the book. With warmest regards to you all, … [MTP].
Henry S. Fleming wrote from N.Y. to Sam in behalf of the Society of Illustrators and on the urging of Daniel Carter Beard, Fleming was “anxious” to have Mark Twain at their Dec. 21 dinner [MTP]. Note: On or just after this day Isabel Lyon answered for Sam: “Should like it very much on M . Beard’s account as well as his own, but it is his purpose this winter as last to avoid going out at night, because he is too apt to catch cold & that always means 6 wks in bed with bronchitis”
Edward L. Adams wrote congratulations to Sam [MTP].
John C. Bostlemann (who had been the Clemens girls’ music teacher) wrote on Ashlar Club stationery, Corning, NY to Sam, enclosing a printed copy of Sam’s unsolicited Sept. 13, 1889 letter (see Vol II). There was a vacancy in the NY State Library and he asked Sam if he might “kindly write me a few lines of endorsement for one of the vacancies” [MTP: Cushman].
Rabie Hart wrote congratulations to Sam [MTP].
John Y.W. MacAlister wrote to Sam with congratulations [MTP].
Abbott Handerson Thayer wrote to Sam with a “yarn about how the Boston Tavern Club has just treated me. I need to know whether I am crazy or whether they are the Bostonest, effetest, driest little set of relics that ever were trundled nightly to a sheep-headed assemblage …” [MTP]. Note: the Tavern Club of young men had been started by William Dean Howells.
Alicia K. Van Buren wrote from Orange Park, Fla. To compliment Sam on “Eve’s Diary” and to ask if he was coming to Florida [MTP].
Outlook ran an anonymous article, “Mark Twain at Seventy,” p. 808. Tenney: “A conventional tribute, noting his wide popularity and his originality, an unevenness in his work, but a closeness to life in primary rather than secondary terms; praises him (by implication) for his courage and honor in paying his debts after his business failure” [Tenney 40; Tenney “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 189-90].
Dear St. Andrew: / What is your telephone number? I have been trying to get to your house, & look at the family, but it is so far & I rise so late—however, I shall succeed, yet. My telephone address is “3907 Gramercy”—it isn’t in the book. With warmest regards to you all, … [MTP].
Henry S. Fleming wrote from N.Y. to Sam in behalf of the Society of Illustrators and on the urging of Daniel Carter Beard, Fleming was “anxious” to have Mark Twain at their Dec. 21 dinner [MTP]. Note: On or just after this day Isabel Lyon answered for Sam: “Should like it very much on M . Beard’s account as well as his own, but it is his purpose this winter as last to avoid going out at night, because he is too apt to catch cold & that always means 6 wks in bed with bronchitis”
Edward L. Adams wrote congratulations to Sam [MTP].
John C. Bostlemann (who had been the Clemens girls’ music teacher) wrote on Ashlar Club stationery, Corning, NY to Sam, enclosing a printed copy of Sam’s unsolicited Sept. 13, 1889 letter (see Vol II). There was a vacancy in the NY State Library and he asked Sam if he might “kindly write me a few lines of endorsement for one of the vacancies” [MTP: Cushman].
Rabie Hart wrote congratulations to Sam [MTP].
John Y.W. MacAlister wrote to Sam with congratulations [MTP].
Abbott Handerson Thayer wrote to Sam with a “yarn about how the Boston Tavern Club has just treated me. I need to know whether I am crazy or whether they are the Bostonest, effetest, driest little set of relics that ever were trundled nightly to a sheep-headed assemblage …” [MTP]. Note: the Tavern Club of young men had been started by William Dean Howells.
Alicia K. Van Buren wrote from Orange Park, Fla. To compliment Sam on “Eve’s Diary” and to ask if he was coming to Florida [MTP].
Outlook ran an anonymous article, “Mark Twain at Seventy,” p. 808. Tenney: “A conventional tribute, noting his wide popularity and his originality, an unevenness in his work, but a closeness to life in primary rather than secondary terms; praises him (by implication) for his courage and honor in paying his debts after his business failure” [Tenney 40; Tenney “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 189-90].
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