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.

July 13 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Mary B. Rogers (Mrs. H.H. Rogers, Jr.).

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.