July 4 Wednesday – In Fairhaven, Mass. Sam inscribed a copy of Eve’s Diary to Mary B. Rogers (Mrs. Harry Rogers, Jr.): “Mrs. Harry Rogers, jr / with the compliments of / The Authoress / & the kind regards of / The Translator. / July 4/06” [MTP].
In the early a.m., Sam returned with H.H. Rogers in the Kanawha to New York instead of going by rail to Dublin, N.H. as earlier planned [July 2 to Clara].
July 3 Tuesday – Charles J. Langdon wrote to Sam, enclosing a check for $120 for various bond coupons, property of Susie Clemens’ estate [MTP].
July 2 Monday – In Fairhaven, Mass. Sam finished his July 1 to Clara in Norfolk, Conn.
July 1 Sunday – In the evening in Fairhaven, Mass. Sam wrote to daughter Jean in Dublin, N.H.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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