April 3 Tuesday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Gertrude Natkin at 138 W. 98 St., N.Y.
M . Clemens has asked me to send you these tickets for a box for the evening of the 19 , and to say that he would write you himself, but that these are very very busy days, & when he is not working he is too tired to do anything but rest up for the busy day that comes to-morrow.
He sends his love to you as always—& will be glad when the days come when he will not be so driven [MTP]. Sam spoke at the Women’s University Club and included a story about a walking tour with Joe Twichell [J.P. Lewis Apr. 4].
Sam’s A.D.: He complained about the Congo Reform Assoc.; He had discovered the “Association’s conviction that our Government’s pledged honor was at stake in the Congo matter was an exaggeration; that the Association was attaching meanings to certain public documents connected with the Congo which the strict sense of the documents did not confirm”
[Hawkins 170]. Note: Sam also discussed the famous “Report of My Death” to a reporter [MTE 252-3].
Reflecting Mark Twain’s popularity, the New York Times announced on p.2, “MARK TWAIN LETTER SOLD, at auction for the grand amount of $43—a nine-page letter to Thomas Nast for Nov. 12, 1877.
Clemens’ A.D. for this day included: The Barnes incident again—Benjamin F. Barnes appointed to Postmastership of Washington—Clemens prepares speech on King Leopold of Belgium, but suppresses it after learning that our Government will do nothing in the matter—Intends to speak at Majestic Theatre on “The American Gentleman” but is defeated by length of first part of programme—Theodore Roosevelt the American gentleman—Mark Twain letter sells for $43 at Nast sale—Report cabled that Clemens was dying, in London— Reporters interview him for American papers [MTP Autodict 4].
Of the selections from Twain’s A.D.’s, DeVoto selected about half of the materials not chosen before by Paine to be included in Mark Twain in Eruption (1940); among DeVoto’s choices, was “The American Gentleman,” dictated this day, which accused Theodore Roosevelt of being representative of America’s bad manners. Sam also made reference to the massacre of 600 Moros in the Philippines [33-4].
M . Clemens has asked me to send you these tickets for a box for the evening of the 19 , and to say that he would write you himself, but that these are very very busy days, & when he is not working he is too tired to do anything but rest up for the busy day that comes to-morrow.
He sends his love to you as always—& will be glad when the days come when he will not be so driven [MTP]. Sam spoke at the Women’s University Club and included a story about a walking tour with Joe Twichell [J.P. Lewis Apr. 4].
Sam’s A.D.: He complained about the Congo Reform Assoc.; He had discovered the “Association’s conviction that our Government’s pledged honor was at stake in the Congo matter was an exaggeration; that the Association was attaching meanings to certain public documents connected with the Congo which the strict sense of the documents did not confirm”
[Hawkins 170]. Note: Sam also discussed the famous “Report of My Death” to a reporter [MTE 252-3].
Reflecting Mark Twain’s popularity, the New York Times announced on p.2, “MARK TWAIN LETTER SOLD, at auction for the grand amount of $43—a nine-page letter to Thomas Nast for Nov. 12, 1877.
Clemens’ A.D. for this day included: The Barnes incident again—Benjamin F. Barnes appointed to Postmastership of Washington—Clemens prepares speech on King Leopold of Belgium, but suppresses it after learning that our Government will do nothing in the matter—Intends to speak at Majestic Theatre on “The American Gentleman” but is defeated by length of first part of programme—Theodore Roosevelt the American gentleman—Mark Twain letter sells for $43 at Nast sale—Report cabled that Clemens was dying, in London— Reporters interview him for American papers [MTP Autodict 4].
Of the selections from Twain’s A.D.’s, DeVoto selected about half of the materials not chosen before by Paine to be included in Mark Twain in Eruption (1940); among DeVoto’s choices, was “The American Gentleman,” dictated this day, which accused Theodore Roosevelt of being representative of America’s bad manners. Sam also made reference to the massacre of 600 Moros in the Philippines [33-4].
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