June 6 Wednesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam sent a telegram to H.H. Rogers. “Yes still am investor to amount formaly mentioned Come up here both of you and I will return with you if properly invested”
Sam then wrote Rogers a letter:
I’ve been sending you a line by telegraph.
Harvey was due here on a visit—any time between June 4 & 10—& I was going to talk “Library of Humor” with him. But I shall now have to do the talking with Duneka. Duneka must arrange a satisfactory compromise with me or I will enjoin that book & sue for damages for unauthorized use of my name for the acquiring of money under false pretenses. I wrote him a letter the other day (first to be submitted to your judgment) and I will enclose a copy of in it this. Now then, jump into the ’bile the both of you, & come! We are all ready, waiting, & wanting you. Telegraph me.
This is country here—real country. Yesterday at 6 p.m., I was standing along on the front porch looking out on the distant valley & the frame of mountains, when a buff & beautiful creature— a doe—came loafing as unconcernedly across the grounds as if she owned the property. There —aren’t we in the country? Isn’t that a sign of it? I was quite unarmed, there was no help near, yet I was not afraid. I got under the porch, but that was because it was going to rain.
Yes, the $10,000 is waiting there for investment—tuck it in for me. I was going to offer Harvey $50,000 worth of Autobiography for the Weekly, (102,000 words at 30 cents); he would deadline; then he would cancel (in writing) my right to take it elsewhere./ With love to you all — [MTHHR 609-10]. Note: See June 4 to Duneka for the conflict over the new Library of Humor book.
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: The celebration at York Harbor—Olivia Clemens’ failing health—She entertains, for the last time, the beautiful “American foreigner” introduced by Carmen Sylva—The return to Riverdale in invalid’s car—The season of unveracity [MTP: Autodict2].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This morning great argument! I had just told Mr. Clemens that yesterday Mr. Paine had told me that he had been married twice, the first marriage beginning in romance, ending in tragedy, & they separated. Mr. Clemens then took up a cudgel for a woman similarly separated, defending, excusing, & damning the human race for making the defense a necessity. Woman that I am, I always wonder how much of the past cause of the unhappiness must be laid to the woman— unless the man is a drunkard, then I think most of it must be laid to her. She doesn’t know her power. Mr. Clemens laid all the faults of all mankind to the mothers for they alone—alone— have the teaching of their children. But he didn’t mean all that—for it goes against his gospel and weakens his position. I sat on that stiff little chair defending the mothers & I couldn’t say what I ought to have said because I was blind with the suddenness of his attack. I trembled & wanted to say [page ends] [MTP TS 78]. Note: again the strikeouts are instructive; along with the June 3 entry (none were made for June 4 or 5), this entry has a large X-out from margin to margin.
Two copies of the first American edition of Eve’s Diary, Translated from the Original MS were deposited with the copyright office. The book was released this month [Hirst, “A Note on the Text” Afterword materials p.27, Oxford ed. 1996].
Miranda N. Thomas wrote from Wash. D.C. to Sam, having noticed in a copy of the Digest a few weeks prior, the “optical illusion” of Sam’s photo with the imagined little girl leaning to his ear. She enclosed the clipping (not in the file) [MTP]. Note: see photo in the Dec. 8 entry when it ran in Harper’s Weekly.
Sam then wrote Rogers a letter:
I’ve been sending you a line by telegraph.
Harvey was due here on a visit—any time between June 4 & 10—& I was going to talk “Library of Humor” with him. But I shall now have to do the talking with Duneka. Duneka must arrange a satisfactory compromise with me or I will enjoin that book & sue for damages for unauthorized use of my name for the acquiring of money under false pretenses. I wrote him a letter the other day (first to be submitted to your judgment) and I will enclose a copy of in it this. Now then, jump into the ’bile the both of you, & come! We are all ready, waiting, & wanting you. Telegraph me.
This is country here—real country. Yesterday at 6 p.m., I was standing along on the front porch looking out on the distant valley & the frame of mountains, when a buff & beautiful creature— a doe—came loafing as unconcernedly across the grounds as if she owned the property. There —aren’t we in the country? Isn’t that a sign of it? I was quite unarmed, there was no help near, yet I was not afraid. I got under the porch, but that was because it was going to rain.
Yes, the $10,000 is waiting there for investment—tuck it in for me. I was going to offer Harvey $50,000 worth of Autobiography for the Weekly, (102,000 words at 30 cents); he would deadline; then he would cancel (in writing) my right to take it elsewhere./ With love to you all — [MTHHR 609-10]. Note: See June 4 to Duneka for the conflict over the new Library of Humor book.
Clemens’ A.D. this day included: The celebration at York Harbor—Olivia Clemens’ failing health—She entertains, for the last time, the beautiful “American foreigner” introduced by Carmen Sylva—The return to Riverdale in invalid’s car—The season of unveracity [MTP: Autodict2].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
This morning great argument! I had just told Mr. Clemens that yesterday Mr. Paine had told me that he had been married twice, the first marriage beginning in romance, ending in tragedy, & they separated. Mr. Clemens then took up a cudgel for a woman similarly separated, defending, excusing, & damning the human race for making the defense a necessity. Woman that I am, I always wonder how much of the past cause of the unhappiness must be laid to the woman— unless the man is a drunkard, then I think most of it must be laid to her. She doesn’t know her power. Mr. Clemens laid all the faults of all mankind to the mothers for they alone—alone— have the teaching of their children. But he didn’t mean all that—for it goes against his gospel and weakens his position. I sat on that stiff little chair defending the mothers & I couldn’t say what I ought to have said because I was blind with the suddenness of his attack. I trembled & wanted to say [page ends] [MTP TS 78]. Note: again the strikeouts are instructive; along with the June 3 entry (none were made for June 4 or 5), this entry has a large X-out from margin to margin.
Two copies of the first American edition of Eve’s Diary, Translated from the Original MS were deposited with the copyright office. The book was released this month [Hirst, “A Note on the Text” Afterword materials p.27, Oxford ed. 1996].
Miranda N. Thomas wrote from Wash. D.C. to Sam, having noticed in a copy of the Digest a few weeks prior, the “optical illusion” of Sam’s photo with the imagined little girl leaning to his ear. She enclosed the clipping (not in the file) [MTP]. Note: see photo in the Dec. 8 entry when it ran in Harper’s Weekly.
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