June 16 Friday – George Bentley wrote from London, England

Dear Sir / I enclose a cheque … with many thanks.

      Your article came very late, & only by displacing one, & making a slight curtailment of the commencement could I get it in time. You will therefore forgive this curtailment It is a quaint article & I shall hope to hear from you again, especially when gd fun runs riot with you.

Yours very truly / & obliged / George Bentley [MTPO]. Note from source: Bentley had responded to Clemens’s 26 April submission of Atlantic Monthly proofs of “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut.”

June 16-17 Saturday – The Clemens family left New York for the ten-hour train ride to Elmira. They stayed with the Langdons until June 29 [The Twainian, Nov-Dec.1956 p.3, June 2, 1911 letter from Susan Crane to Paine].