July 28 Tuesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to daughter Jean at Eastern Point in Gloucester, Mass.  

July 27 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Dorothy Quick.

Dorothy dear, I miss you. It seems a long time since you were here. Louise has been here once, for a few minutes, & we have had a five minutes’ glimpse of Frances; Frances [Paine] went back home to her father’s house the day you went away.

July 26 Sunday – Jean Clemens’ 28th birthday.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Today when the King and Sheba and Zoe [Mr. & Mrs. Zoheth Freeman] were driving and passed a cemetery, Sheba said that the King reverently lifted his hat from his beautiful head and after a moment Sheba reached over and touched his beautiful hand in sympathy.

July 25 Saturday – Sam sent a brief note to Miss Dorothy Butes, who was sailing home to England: “Goodbye you dear child, and a happy voyage / SL Clemens” [MTAq 188].

Mary Desha wrote from Washington, D.C. anxious to “establish kinship” to Clemens through her great grandmother Katherine Montgomery. A photo of a woman is in the file [MTP].

Note: on the letter, but not by IVL: “ans’d  9/7”

John M. Howells wrote from Onteora Park, NY to Sam.

July 24 Friday – Sam, Ralph Ashcroft, and Zoheth S. Freeman played billiards from 9:30 p.m. till after midnight [July 27 to Quick]. Note: Freeman, at this time Vice-President of Liberty National Bank, N.Y. Along with Jervis Langdon II, and Edward Loomis, Freeman would be an executor to Sam’s estate.

Sam’s new guestbook:

Name Address Date Remarks

Mrs. Grace Hill Freeman (“Sheba”) New York July 24-26

Z.S. Freeman (her property) “        “

July 23 Thursday – George M. Robinson, Clara’s tour manager, wrote to Isabel Lyon c/o Clemens: “Will you kindly send me a check for $75., in accordance with our understanding. I am sending out two thousand circulars with letters enclosed. Will send you a copy of the circular to-morrow. I think it a vast improvement on last year’s issue” [MTP].

July 22 Wednesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margery H. Clinton at 39 E. 57   N.Y.C.

July 20 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam replied to the July 7 request by Edward Verrall Lucas.

Dear Lucy: / My permission to include the Tom Sawyer extract in your series, you have, straight from the bat, as the worldlings say. My secretary will ask the Harpers to add their permission, & forward it to the Mac Millans or to you.

Love & all good wishes to you & to Punch & that dear little fairy./  Sincerely Yours … [MTP].

July 18 Saturday – Sam’s guestbook   shows the following entry (also noted in IVL TS 54):

Name Address Date Remarks

Margery Hamilton Clinton 29 (?) East 57th, New York July 18-24 (?) *

* Sam added the following in the Remarks column next to Margery’s entry:

July 17 Friday – Frank N. Doubleday for Doubleday, Page & Co. wrote to Sam that he was sending “some books for your library at Redding.” He declined the invitation from Miss Lyon to spend a night but he and the wife were taking a steamer for France next Tuesday. He offered to send their “bang-up photographer,” Mr. A.R. Dugmore, to take colored pictures of the Redding house [MTP].