May 13 Sunday – Sam inscribed his photograph to Gertrude Natkin: “To Getrude, with the love of her oldest friend— / Mark Twain / May 13, 1906” [MTP].
Sam also wrote a follow up to Oren Root, Jr. on his complaint of his daughter being charged the wrong fare. Sam thanked him for investigating his complaint and acknowledged receipt of 20 cents worth of stamps: “The conductor against whom that charge can be made only once in two years must be a valuable man, and I should be the last one to wish to get him into trouble” [MTP: John S. Mayfield, Mark Twain vs. the Street Railway Co., 1926, p.22-3]. Note: see May 5 to Root and May 9 from Root.
Gertrude Natkin finished her May 12 to Sam, calling him “Grandpa” and asking him not to love her “any less because I am sixteen. No matter how old I am in years, I shall always be your young little Marjorie as long as you wish it” She thanked him for sending her a present of one of his pens that would inspire her [MTAq 29; MTP].
Sam also wrote a follow up to Oren Root, Jr. on his complaint of his daughter being charged the wrong fare. Sam thanked him for investigating his complaint and acknowledged receipt of 20 cents worth of stamps: “The conductor against whom that charge can be made only once in two years must be a valuable man, and I should be the last one to wish to get him into trouble” [MTP: John S. Mayfield, Mark Twain vs. the Street Railway Co., 1926, p.22-3]. Note: see May 5 to Root and May 9 from Root.
Gertrude Natkin finished her May 12 to Sam, calling him “Grandpa” and asking him not to love her “any less because I am sixteen. No matter how old I am in years, I shall always be your young little Marjorie as long as you wish it” She thanked him for sending her a present of one of his pens that would inspire her [MTAq 29; MTP].
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