June – Sometime during the month Sam inscribed two photographs to Katharine Boland Clemens:“with the love of her cousin,” and “with the love and affection of her cousin” [MTP]. Note: Katharine married Sam’s cousin James Ross Clemens.
Sam also wrote an inscription to John Garth. “In reverent memory of John Garth, and in unbroken friendship of 55 years, June, 1902” [MTP].
Gribben writes, “Clemens returned form Hannibal and St. Louis, Missouri in 1902 with a sense of how rapidly death was winnowing his early friends; amid notes he made then for reassembling Tom Sawyer’s gang fifty years after their youth, he twice copied passages he recalled from [Oliver Wendell Holmes’] ‘The Last Leaf’” [Gribben 319: NB 45 TS 14, 18].
Review of Reviews (NY) ran “Some Books to Read this Summer,” by Francis W. Halsey, p.700-7. Tenney: “Portrait of MT and brief mention of ‘A Double-Barrelled Detective Story’ without critical comment” [37].
The Book Buyer ran Roland Phillips’ article, “Mark Twain and the Chat Noir,” p.379-82. Tenney: “Concerns a joke played on M. Salis, cabaret-owner, friend of poets, and admirer of MT; contains nothing bearing directly on MT” [37].
Ralph W. Ashcroft became assistant manager of the Plasmon Co. of America [Report of Cases Vol. 187 (1910): Ashcroft v. Hammond 491].