March 1 Thursday – In Hartford, Sam luncheoned with friends assembled by Charles Hopkins Clark [Feb. 26 to Clark; ca. Mar. 10 to Clark]. F. Kaplan puts this at the Hartford Club and includes Joe Twichell [631]. Note: Clark wrote on Mar. 9 suggesting they split the bill for the lunch; Sam agreed.
F. Kaplan also has Twain reading “Wapping Alice” to Harmony Twichell’s Saturday morning discussion group sometime during the three days in Hartford, but if he did so it would not have been on a Saturday. Kaplan writes, “Harmony felt smoldering resentment that he dared present a story about sexual escapades and transvestitism to respectable female company,” though it’s not clear how he knows she smoldered [631].
In the evening Sam returned to New York [IVL TS 24].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Tonight Mr. Clemens came back from Hartford & he took cold up there. It began going up in the train when he sat in a draft & the wind blew into the Twichell house & into his bedroom, so that wasn’t comforting & yesterday morning at the funeral, he took off his coat when he got into the Cathedral & struggled against the creeping cold. The coat was miles away for he had given it to the Sexton, not realizing that he was going to be away up by the altar. He said the service was so beautiful. The priest’s voice was fine & in the right key, and “there was one voice in the choir that was divinely beautiful”—he couldn’t tell me whether it was a boy’s or a woman’s, but oh it was so satisfying [MTP TS 39].
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. wrote from San Diego, Calif. to Sam that he’d rec’d Harper’s notice of the Hill Crest edition, though he already possessed each volume, “some of them several times over, and there is not a volume among them that I have not occasionally presented to a friend when in need of good literature.” Grant especially valued the books with Sam’s autograph. Though he only got to NY once in three or four years, Grant intended to call on his next visit [MTP]. See Sam’s reply on Mar. 8.
James A. Renwick wrote to Sam, sending a rent receipt $291.67 for March rent [MTP].
F. Kaplan also has Twain reading “Wapping Alice” to Harmony Twichell’s Saturday morning discussion group sometime during the three days in Hartford, but if he did so it would not have been on a Saturday. Kaplan writes, “Harmony felt smoldering resentment that he dared present a story about sexual escapades and transvestitism to respectable female company,” though it’s not clear how he knows she smoldered [631].
In the evening Sam returned to New York [IVL TS 24].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Tonight Mr. Clemens came back from Hartford & he took cold up there. It began going up in the train when he sat in a draft & the wind blew into the Twichell house & into his bedroom, so that wasn’t comforting & yesterday morning at the funeral, he took off his coat when he got into the Cathedral & struggled against the creeping cold. The coat was miles away for he had given it to the Sexton, not realizing that he was going to be away up by the altar. He said the service was so beautiful. The priest’s voice was fine & in the right key, and “there was one voice in the choir that was divinely beautiful”—he couldn’t tell me whether it was a boy’s or a woman’s, but oh it was so satisfying [MTP TS 39].
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. wrote from San Diego, Calif. to Sam that he’d rec’d Harper’s notice of the Hill Crest edition, though he already possessed each volume, “some of them several times over, and there is not a volume among them that I have not occasionally presented to a friend when in need of good literature.” Grant especially valued the books with Sam’s autograph. Though he only got to NY once in three or four years, Grant intended to call on his next visit [MTP]. See Sam’s reply on Mar. 8.
James A. Renwick wrote to Sam, sending a rent receipt $291.67 for March rent [MTP].
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