October 18 Sunday – Sam’s new guestbook:

Name Address Date Remarks

Miss Ethel Newcomb Interior N.Y. (& Vienna) October 18-21 

October 17 Saturday – Sam’s new guestbook:  

Name Address Date Remarks

Geo. Neilgruen  )

Gustave Kobbé  ) From Harper & Bros, N.Y.  October 17 To discuss my new copyright law

Mr. Phayre )

 Note: Gustav Kobbé (1856-1918) was an author in his own right, with at least two books on opera. At the time of his accidental death from a hydroplane, Kobbe was the music and art critic of the NY Herald. John F. Phayne of Harpers.

October 16 Friday – The New York Times, p. 9, “Says Arnold Daly Will Try Vaudeville,” reported that Percy Williams, vaudeville manager and proprietor of the Orpheum circuit announced that Arnold Daly and company would produce a new one-act farce by Mark Twain entitled “Becoming An Editor,” which would open at the Colonial Theatre in Brooklyn on Oct. 26.

Sam’s new guestbook:

Name Address Date Remarks

October 15 Thursday – Sam’s original guestbook contains the following names for this date, which do not appear in the new guestbook, transcribed after Dec. 28: Kate V. Saint Maur, The Maples, Redding; Vida C – – ly Sidney, Siasconset Mass.; Fanny Sanford Shaw, Redbank, N.J. [Mac Donnell TS 5, 7]. Note: p. 6 is left blank.

October 14 Wednesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer.

October 13 Tuesday – Sam’s new guestbook:

Name Address Date Remarks

Mrs. Laura Hawkins Frazer Hannibal, Missouri October 15 ——— >  My first sweetheart (65 years ago when she was 6 or 7 years old.)

Her granddaughter Clara    “                  “     “          “

October 12 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam finished his Oct. 10 to Frances Nunnally.

Monday, Oct. 12—noon.

October 11 Sunday – Cunard line Commodore Daniel Dow ended his weekend stay at Stormfield. Sam returned his coat and cap worn in the insert photo, likely taken this very day (see Oct. 12 to Nunnally).

October 10 Saturday – Sam wrote an aphorism to an unidentified person: “We ought never to do wrong when people are looking. / Truly yours / Mark Twain” [MTP: Superior Auction Galleries catalog, Oct. 15, 1991, Item 1832].

In Redding, Conn., Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Laura Hawkins Frazer, his childhood sweetheart.

October 9 Friday – In Redding, Conn. Sam finished his Oct. 6, 7, 8 to Margaret Blackmer at the Misses Tewksbury’s School in Irvington-on-Hudson, NY.  

Friday, Oct. 9. I have a lovely letter from your mother this morning, & I gather from it that one of these days you are going to invite me again to visit the school. That is very pleasant, dear heart, I shall be sure to accept.