September 10 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Will [Charles Wark] came up this morning. / At early breakfast came 2 letters from Paine. Benares and I were in the loggia at breakfast and I had to have him read them, for since the day when Paine wrote a letter that must have been terrible, for he forestalled my reading of it.”

Victor Sauer wrote from Essen, Germany to ask Sam where he might procure some number of the NAR for 1908 containing another Autobiography segment, as he was going to lecture, and Twain’s books were held in great interest in Germany; he abhorred black clothing for men [MTP].

Citizens of Hartford sent a folder and engraved invitation to the Hartford Bridge Dedication on Oct. 6 [MTP].