March 3 Saturday – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. Sam wrote to Homer Croy, editor of the Missouri University’s yearbook the Savitar. Croy had sent Sam a copy of the 1905 yearbook which announced a proposal to dedicate the 1906 edition to Mark Twain. See insert 1906 Savitar.
The Savitar has arrived, & I thank you very much for it. Everything that comes from the University interests me,—& this book affects me in that way strongly. Meantime my secretary has mislaid your letter. According to my recollection it proposed to dedicate the next Savitar to me. If that is so, I shall be proud of the honor, I assure you. I do not remember that you added anything, but if you did it has escaped from my memory, & I beg that you will repeat it. / Sincerely Yours … [MTP].
Sam also wrote per Lyon to decline an invitation by the Yale Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to lecture: “I have not an open date for the rest of the season” [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Jean and I went over to the Gilders’ last night. So many strange people! But I had a nice talk with Mr. Everett Shinn who tried to sell his Cornish place to Mr. Clemens a year ago. I saw & quite liked several people. Mary Lawton was a glory in white satin. Mr. Gilder was beautiful.
Secured a cabin for C.C. on the Minnetonka sailing June 9th. (Weeks later—Returned that security.)
Mr. Paine came in this morning with some beautiful photographs of Mr. Clemens. Photographs that he made of Mr. Clemens in bed & they are wonderful.
Barry Faulkner came in for tea & he told us how on Jan. 24, a bitterly cold day, Gerald Thayer, utterly naked climbed to the top of Monodnock. I think it was a glory of a thing to do. Think of that strong young naked white creature dashing alone through the winter woods. Think of him standing along among the mighty rocks on the top of the mountain. It is the great primeval call of the wild & there seems to me to be something akin to a religion in it [MTP TS 40-41].
George Daulton wrote from Staten Island, NY to send Sam one of Gessford’s photographs for him to sign. George was the son of Sam’s “old time printer friend,” Frank Daulton. George’s wife had a serial running in St. Nicholas, and one of George’s stories was “under consideration” at the Century Co. Frank Daulton was now living in Arkansas dwelling “with extreme pleasure in his memories of you.” George would like to visit Twain sometime [MTP].
Alice M. Ditson (Mrs. Charles H. Ditson) wrote from NYC to Sam. “My Dear Mr Clemens— / send the enclosed with no further comment than that ‘them’ my sentiments—” And you wanted to have my angel dog for breakfast! Infidel! Nevertheless I am yours affectionately …” [MTP].
Richard Watson Gilder wrote to Sam.
President Finley and I are collecting letters to Ex-President Cleveland from his friends, appropriate to his 69th birthday. If the plan appeals to you, will you kindly send a sealed greeting under cover to me at the above address [Century Magazine, NYC], and I will send it, and the other letters, South to him in time for him to get them, all together, on the 18th of the present month… [MTP].
C. Brereton Sharpe for the Plasmon Syndicate sent a telegram reply to Sam’s cable of Mar. 2. “We to-day cabled in reply as follows: — / ‘Raif New York. / Yes / Praevalet”. Sharpe also wrote a letter, quoting Sam’s Mar. 2 cable, his reply and added: “and are very pleased indeed to learn that you have been able to arrive at an adjustment. / We trust that the arrangement you have made with Mr. Hammond will prove a satisfactory one for all concerned, and that we may look forward in the near future to good and profitable results from the Plasmon business in America” [MTP].
The Savitar has arrived, & I thank you very much for it. Everything that comes from the University interests me,—& this book affects me in that way strongly. Meantime my secretary has mislaid your letter. According to my recollection it proposed to dedicate the next Savitar to me. If that is so, I shall be proud of the honor, I assure you. I do not remember that you added anything, but if you did it has escaped from my memory, & I beg that you will repeat it. / Sincerely Yours … [MTP].
Sam also wrote per Lyon to decline an invitation by the Yale Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society to lecture: “I have not an open date for the rest of the season” [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Jean and I went over to the Gilders’ last night. So many strange people! But I had a nice talk with Mr. Everett Shinn who tried to sell his Cornish place to Mr. Clemens a year ago. I saw & quite liked several people. Mary Lawton was a glory in white satin. Mr. Gilder was beautiful.
Secured a cabin for C.C. on the Minnetonka sailing June 9th. (Weeks later—Returned that security.)
Mr. Paine came in this morning with some beautiful photographs of Mr. Clemens. Photographs that he made of Mr. Clemens in bed & they are wonderful.
Barry Faulkner came in for tea & he told us how on Jan. 24, a bitterly cold day, Gerald Thayer, utterly naked climbed to the top of Monodnock. I think it was a glory of a thing to do. Think of that strong young naked white creature dashing alone through the winter woods. Think of him standing along among the mighty rocks on the top of the mountain. It is the great primeval call of the wild & there seems to me to be something akin to a religion in it [MTP TS 40-41].
George Daulton wrote from Staten Island, NY to send Sam one of Gessford’s photographs for him to sign. George was the son of Sam’s “old time printer friend,” Frank Daulton. George’s wife had a serial running in St. Nicholas, and one of George’s stories was “under consideration” at the Century Co. Frank Daulton was now living in Arkansas dwelling “with extreme pleasure in his memories of you.” George would like to visit Twain sometime [MTP].
Alice M. Ditson (Mrs. Charles H. Ditson) wrote from NYC to Sam. “My Dear Mr Clemens— / send the enclosed with no further comment than that ‘them’ my sentiments—” And you wanted to have my angel dog for breakfast! Infidel! Nevertheless I am yours affectionately …” [MTP].
Richard Watson Gilder wrote to Sam.
President Finley and I are collecting letters to Ex-President Cleveland from his friends, appropriate to his 69th birthday. If the plan appeals to you, will you kindly send a sealed greeting under cover to me at the above address [Century Magazine, NYC], and I will send it, and the other letters, South to him in time for him to get them, all together, on the 18th of the present month… [MTP].
C. Brereton Sharpe for the Plasmon Syndicate sent a telegram reply to Sam’s cable of Mar. 2. “We to-day cabled in reply as follows: — / ‘Raif New York. / Yes / Praevalet”. Sharpe also wrote a letter, quoting Sam’s Mar. 2 cable, his reply and added: “and are very pleased indeed to learn that you have been able to arrive at an adjustment. / We trust that the arrangement you have made with Mr. Hammond will prove a satisfactory one for all concerned, and that we may look forward in the near future to good and profitable results from the Plasmon business in America” [MTP].
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