July 18 Wednesday – Sam measured off the winding driveway up to Quarry Farm, and began a game.

“…after three and a half weeks of “booming along” on his two mismatched books, Clemens had a premonition of overwork, quite for the day, and, characteristically, gave himself over to something altogether different but also, as he found it in his high mood, equally absorbing. On this idyllic summer day, with Susy, Clara, and Jean by his side, he measured off with a yardstick 817 feet…Then, using as markers pegs which he whittled and drove himself, he measured out on the scale of one foot per year all the reigns of the English rulers from William the Conqueror on” [Kaplan 252; July 20 to Twichell].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote expecting “an order for your examination” in the Duncan suit [MTP].