July 1906

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July – Harper’s Monthly published Sam’s article, “William Dean Howells,” p. 221-5 [Budd, Collected 2: 1011].

The Reader carried a photograph by Underwood & Underwood of Mark Twain reading in bed [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 191].

June 30, 1906 Saturday

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June 30 Saturday – In Fairhaven, Mass. Sam rose at 5 a.m. and after luncheon “began to play billiards & kept it up until a quarter past 2 this morning [July 1]” [July 1 to Jean].

Gertrude Natkin’s diary: “On June 30, Mr. Clemens sent me Eve’s Diary with his autograph” [MTAq 30].

June 29, 1906 Friday

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June 29 Friday – NYC: Early in the morning Sam went with H.H. Rogers on his yacht Kanawha and sailed to Fairhaven; He slept on board  [June 28 to Jean; 1 and 2 July to Clara].

In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon’s journal:

[written diagonally] I am giving birth to something. The parturition pains are great & the birth is a slow one—weeks & weeks. I know not what shall be born but it will be greater—greater than I, & the shell of me is not worthy to be the mother.

June 28, 1906 Thursday

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June 28 Thursday – At 5 a.m., 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to daughter Jean, still in Dublin, N.H. 

Jean dear, it is 5 a.m., this not being a good atmosphere to sleep in. I had a pleasant enough journey, (Tuesday) & went to bed almost as soon as I arrived; but I was not tired & not drowsy.

June 27, 1906 Wednesday

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June 27 Wednesday – In NYC Sam went to see H.H. Rogers but he was in a board meeting; he talked with Katharine I. Harrison. In the evening Miss Lilly Burbank and Miss Mosher were passing by his house and he had a chat with them at the gate [June 28 to Jean Clemens].

Notes: Miss Emily W. Burbank (ca.1869-1934), NY writer and lecturer, and Miss Florence Mosher, had been a pupil of Leschetizky. Both ladies were friends of Clara and Jean Clemens.

June 26, 1906 Tuesday

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June 26 Tuesday – Sam left Dublin, N.H. and traveled first to Boston, then on to New York. If his plans went as he’d told Charlotte Teller on June 25, he arrived home at 6 p.m. (See IVL’s journal entry below).  In the evening he wrote to William Dean Howells 

It is lovely of you to say those beautiful things—I don’t know how to thank you enough. But I love you, that I know.

June 25, 1906 Monday

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June 25 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson.

Dear Charlotte, I am called from this solitude to that of the society of Katy & the butler at No. 21 for a day or two, & am due to arrive there at 6 p.m. to-morrow. If you haven’t registered any crimes against me in the past ten days I hope you will be so good & so kind as to appear at 21 Wednesday morning at 10—if that isn’t too early for you—& let me look at you. Could you? Would you? Will you? [MTP].

June 24, 1906 Sunday

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June 24 Sunday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam gave Lyon instructions to write Ralph W. Ashcroft about a perceived “insulting advertisement” by Harpers, which stated that he was going to withdraw his Christian Science book from publication. Would Ashcroft look in Publisher’s Weekly for April 1903? [MTP].

Sam also replied to the June 22 of Brander Matthews (the note sent by hand to 121 E. 18 , NYC).

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