October 15 Wednesday – The Clemens family and Sue Crane left York Harbor, Maine about 9 a.m. utilizing an “invalid car.” They rode to a point south of Boston, then on to N.Y.C., arriving at 5:40 p.m. 20 minutes more brought them by special engine to Riverdale, N.Y. at about 7 p.m. [Oct. 16 to Hutton; Oct. 16 Jean Clemens to Sewell; Oct. 19 to Crane]. Sam thought Livy arrived in “pretty good physical condition” [Oct 18 to MacAlister].

John Y. MacAlister cabled Sam, the message not extant but referred to in Sam’s Oct. 18 reply as being rec’d “the moment we arrived, Oct. 15.”

Sam’s sketch “Amended Obituaries” first ran in this issue of Harper’s Weekly. It was collected in $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906).