June 26 Friday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
Dear Mr. Rogers: / Will you & Mrs. Rogers come & pay me a visit? I hope you can, & that you will give me that pleasure. I have been in the house a week, now, & am nearly wonted. I am sending this note to New York, as you were still there & making preparations for Bermuda when I last heard of you, which was a week ago.
This is a good house, & a very comfortable one—however, it is better that you judge of that when you come. / Yours ever … [MTHHR 649].
H. Walter Barnett, London photographer, replied to Sam’s June 17. “It was with very great pleasure that I received your very kind note this morning, instructing me to send one of the portraits that I made of you eight years ago to Mrs. H.H. Rogers, Junior….” Barnett was also sending photos of Clara Clemens and Miss Marie Nichols, who were in England. Soon he’d be able to make full color photographs, but was still experimenting with them [MTP].
Robert H. Syms wrote from NYC, simply to appreciate Sam’s “literary work” and “to emphasize particularly the value which I put upon your sympathetic insight into the hearts of men and your poetical appreciation of the beauties of nature” [MTP]. Note: IVL: “Answd / July 1, 1908”
Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.