July 11 Saturday – The New York Times, “Topics of the Week,” p. BR385, led off with the following paragraph about Elinor Glyn and Mark Twain:

July 10 Friday – Sam’s guestbook   has the following entries (also noted in IVL TS 54):

Name Address Date Remarks

Mrs. Quick Plainfield, N.J. July 10-17 Remained until

Dorothy Quick M.A.  “        “        “   “  “ “ -17       July 18

Frances Paine Redding, Conn.   “  “ “ -17

July 9 Thursday – Sam’s A.D. for this date continued to focus with “spectacular venon” (Hill 209) against Lillian Aldrich for the June 30 Memorial of her late husband, which Sam attended.  

Sarah S. Collier (Mrs. Robert J. Collier) wrote from Racquette Lake in the Adirondacks, N.Y. to thank Sam for his invitation to stay with him, “but I am settled here for the summer, and don’t expect to leave till some time in September” [MTP].

July 8 Wednesday – Sam’s guestbook    has the following entries (also noted in IVL TS 54):

Name Address Date Remarks

Frederick Leigh New York City July 8-9 Staff of Harper & Bros.

F.A. Duneka  “        “        “   “  “8-9

Note: Major Frederick Leigh was Treasurer of Harper’s.

William Dean Howells, in Kittery Point, Maine, wrote to Sam.

July 7 Tuesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer.

July 6 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Collier’s Weekly.

July 5 Sunday – In Redding, Conn. Sam began a letter to Dorothy Sturgis which he mislaid, found and finished on July 14. The July 5 portion: Sunday noon.

July 4 Saturday – Sam’s A.D. for this date continued to focus with “spectacular venom” (Hill 209) against Lillian Aldrich for the June 30 Memorial of her late husband, which Sam attended.  

Harper’s Weekly ran an anonymous article, “Mark Twain’s New Home at Redding,” p. 24, 29. Tenney: “On the purchase of the land, building of the house, and the neighbors. Illustrated with photographs of the house, local scenes, and MT playing billiards with Albert Bigelow Paine” [45].

July 3 Friday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to John M. Howells, who had designed Sam’s new home in Redding.

July 2 Thursday – Sam and Albert B. Paine left Boston at 8 a.m. for N.Y. [June 29 and July 2 to Quick]. Later, in Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to daughter Jean.