July 25 Saturday – Sam sent a brief note to Miss Dorothy Butes, who was sailing home to England: “Goodbye you dear child, and a happy voyage / SL Clemens” [MTAq 188].

Mary Desha wrote from Washington, D.C. anxious to “establish kinship” to Clemens through her great grandmother Katherine Montgomery. A photo of a woman is in the file [MTP].

Note: on the letter, but not by IVL: “ans’d  9/7”

John M. Howells wrote from Onteora Park, NY to Sam.

It was awfully nice of you to really write so kindly about the house—even if somewhat under pressure, and Stokes and I will put it proudly in our archives. / It came just as I had again finished reading the Yankee at K. Arthur’s Court, which I, socialist as I am, think a glorious book. I wish everyone had to read it—it is such a splendid study in democracy. My father saw me reading it—and took it off to bed with him. Next morning at breakfast he was full of it —“That’s a great book of Clemen’s” he said [MTP].