August 2 Sunday– In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Charles M. Fairbanks.

Dear Charley— / Will you please entrust temporarily to the hands of the bearer, Mr. W. R. Ashcroft, such of my old letters and original (unpublished) MSS as your mother left in the family’s possession, so that he may have copies made of them for me. I have empowered Clara to publish a book of my letters for her bread-&-butter’s sake, (after my death.) / Sincerely Yours [MTP].

Sam also sent a telegram to Mary M. Moffett (Mrs. Samuel E. Moffett) (Mrs. Samuel E. Moffett):

“THE FAMILY DEEPLY SYMPATHIZE WITH YOU IN YOUR GREAT BEREAVEMENT. KATY & I WILL ATTEND I SHALL ATTEND THE FUNERAL. / S.L. CLEMENS” [MTP].

Sam’s original guestbook contained an entry for Franklin G. Whitmore; Harriet E.G. Whitmore was on the line above her husband but no date was entered; both were guests this day [Mac Donnell TS 1].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “The Whitmores are here and this morning when the King and I were having breakfast on the loggia, a fly pestered the King and he said ‘I’d rather have a rank old prostitute around than one fly’” [MTP: IVL TS 55].