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].
July 16 Thursday – Jeanne E. Wier for the Nevada Historical Society wrote to inform Sam that he’d unanimously been given honorary membership in their annual meeting on June 8. She added that she felt RI was the best history of Nevada yet written [MTP].
Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.
July 14 Tuesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam finished the mislaid July 5 letter to Dorothy Sturgis.
TEN DAYS LATER
It has long been my impression that this letter went to the mail at the time it was written. But that was a mistake. It got mislaid, & had turned up by accident this morning.