May 1 Tuesday – Edward H. House wrote to Sam

Dear Mark: Here is the N.A.R. and I thank you for the opportunity of looking at it. Is it not an amazing thing to see how the brightest and clearest intellects become suddenly clouded and obscured when they take up defense of the conventional Christian system? If it were not for the signature, you might believe that Gladstone’s essay was written by a student in the lower classes of an orthodox seminary [MTP]. Note: the essay House referred to in this month’s issue: “Colonel Ingersoll on Christianity” by W. E. Gladstone. NAR 146.378 (May 1888): 481-508.

Lloyd Osbourne wrote from N.Y. to Sam for Robert Louis Stevenson, who had received Sam’s note but had already made other arrangements. They were headed to Long Branch, N.J. to “a little inn” [MTP].

Inscribed to Sam: Sir William Smith (1813-1893), The Registers of Topcliffe and Morley in the W.R. of the County of York. (1888): For S. Clemens, Esq./ with the Editor’s kind regards / May Day, 1888 [Gribben 651].

Clarence L. Palmer & Co, dealers in Meats, Poultry and Vegetables, Hartford billed $102.99, “Amt Bill per pass book” (no detail); Paid May 5, 1888 [MTP].