May 24 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
The Gospel proof [“What is Man?”] comes along in batches from Mr. Doubleday & it is so beautifully printed to begin with & so absorbingly interesting that once you begin a galley you can’t stop until you’ve read all the batch. And Mr. Clemens does like it so much! It is his pet book and absolutely true. That & the Rubiyat ought to stand together [MTP TS 73].
In N.Y.C. William Dean Howells wrote to Sam.
“What you want to read is ‘In Our Town’ by Wm. Allen White. It is like all the middling-sized towns you ever lived in. It is a series of photographs taken with Roentgen rays. McClure publishes it. —Just off for Kittery Point, tonight. / Yours ever”… [MTHL 2: 808]. Note: June 24 to White; June 26 to Howells.
Clemens’ A.D. for the day: Clemens tries to buy his contracts from the American Publishing Co. & finally takes his next book, “Old Times on the Mississippi,” to James R. Osgood, who published it by subscription and made a failure of it. Osgood next published “The Prince and Pauper.” Clemens buys numerous patents, losing on all of them; also stock in Travelers Accident Insurence Co.—description of Senator John P. Jones—Mr. Clemens refuses to buy telephone stock [MTP Autodict2].
The Gospel proof [“What is Man?”] comes along in batches from Mr. Doubleday & it is so beautifully printed to begin with & so absorbingly interesting that once you begin a galley you can’t stop until you’ve read all the batch. And Mr. Clemens does like it so much! It is his pet book and absolutely true. That & the Rubiyat ought to stand together [MTP TS 73].
In N.Y.C. William Dean Howells wrote to Sam.
“What you want to read is ‘In Our Town’ by Wm. Allen White. It is like all the middling-sized towns you ever lived in. It is a series of photographs taken with Roentgen rays. McClure publishes it. —Just off for Kittery Point, tonight. / Yours ever”… [MTHL 2: 808]. Note: June 24 to White; June 26 to Howells.
Clemens’ A.D. for the day: Clemens tries to buy his contracts from the American Publishing Co. & finally takes his next book, “Old Times on the Mississippi,” to James R. Osgood, who published it by subscription and made a failure of it. Osgood next published “The Prince and Pauper.” Clemens buys numerous patents, losing on all of them; also stock in Travelers Accident Insurence Co.—description of Senator John P. Jones—Mr. Clemens refuses to buy telephone stock [MTP Autodict2].
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