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April 1 Sunday – Although not cited by Fatout or others, on Apr. 4, Charles F. Powlison for the YMCA wrote from NYC to thank Sam for addressing their Sunday afternoon meeting.

Cuyler Reynolds wrote from Albany, NY to Sam, relating that his late father had engaged James W. Paige and given him “his type-setting bent,” and how building such machines had made his father a failure and left them in poverty. He had heard Sam had lived in a house once used by D’Annunzio and wanted to know the address. He’d also defended Sam’s book, Extracts of Adam’s Diary to Bishop Doane [MTP]. Note: William Croswell Doane (1832- 1913), First Bishop Episcopal Diocese of Albany. Gaetano Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863- 1938), Italian poet, journalist, daredevil.

April 1 ca. – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon replied for Sam to the cartoons of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer sent Mar. 30 from the Evansville Courier by cartoonist Alexander [MTP].  

An envelope survives addressed to Charlotte Teller Johnson catalogued as “1 April to 25 October 1906” [MTP].

Jervis Langdon II sent Sam a report as trustee to former stockholders of J. Langdon & Co, Inc. from Feb. 17, 1905 to Apr. 1, 1906 [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the letter for Lyon to “write Jervis and tell him he transacts that business better even than his Uncle Sam could after all his experience on the platform.”

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.