May 2 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook: “Sent to McClure May 2 Postal-check contains 5,614 words. $825 or $850.7. for 7.30 sharp. / Royal Library Fund Hotel Cecil, (Entrance east wing.) Lord Chief Justice of England. (Earl of Crewe is Lord Houghton’s son)” [NB 43 TS 9].
May 1 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Noon. Plasmon 11 Cornhill. Go down with Mac & Bergheim. / Vote Mac a right to assume the doctor’s stake himself” [NB 43 TS 9].
May – In London, England Sam wrote to Samuel S. McClure. “We shall spend from June 1 till Oct 1 in England. Won’t you please divert the magazine to /Care Chatto & Windus” [MTP].
April 30 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Never waste a lie, for you never know when you may need one” [NB 43 TS 9].
At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Lyman J. Gage (1836-1902) concerning his protégé, Florizel Reuter enclosing a copy of his Apr. 28 to Grace Reuter, Florizel’s mother [MTP].
The accompanying copy is what I wrote to Mrs. Reuter. [on Apr. 28]
April 29 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Punctuality is the thief of time. / S.L. Clemens interviews Mark Twain.
Subject: What do you think of Interviewers & their trade?” [NB 43 TS 9].
April 28 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Grace Reuter, mother of child prodigy on the violin, Florizel Reuter (or von Reuter; 1890-1985) and protégé of Lyman J. Gage (see Apr. 30 to Gage in which this letter was enclosed). Evidently Sam had heard the young fiddler at his parlor some time before this letter, and had been duly impressed.
April 27 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “11.30 a.m. Plasmon 56 Duke st” [NB 43 TS 9].
Patrascan, a Mark Twain fan, wrote again in French, from Bacau, Roumania [MTP]. Note: Holger Kersten kindly provides the English translation.
1900 Avril 27
Bacau
Roumanie
Illustre Monsieur,
April 26 Thursday – Sam’s notebook: “Bigelow—dinner, 7.30” [NB 43 TS 8].
April 25 Wednesday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Frank Bliss.
Col. Harvey has been here, & I arranged with him that the Harpers are to issue no cheap editions of the old books….That is all stopped.
If you were going to issue a cheap “Library of Humor” it is just as well that the plates were melted, for we don’t want any cheap editions, I think. They don’t pay. / Sincerely… [MTP].
April 24 Tuesday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to an unidentified man from an unidentified committee to decline an invitation to respond to a given toast, also unidentified. Sam could not do so, and would have to prepare a speech, but afterward “should never be able to remember it.”