October 7 Monday – R.G. Newbegin wrote to Sam that Thomas Reed had called his attention to the fact that a letter had been sent in their company name “reported to have been signed by you.” Newbegin blamed W.I. Squire, another agent in Toledo, Ohio; he understood Sam’s indignation, was sorry that the matter occurred, and would do their best to see it didn’t happen again. He confided Reed’s assertion that the act was “forgery in the third degree” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env.

October 5 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Mr. Osborne (not further identified): “Indeed I should very much like to see that institution, but I have settled down, now, to stir from under the rooftree no more forever—at least for a year or two, I hope. / Won’t you send me another copy of the pamphlet? I hadn’t read three pages of it before some one carried it off. I was thoroughly interested” [MTP].

October 4 Friday – Sam and the passengers on the Kanawha watched as Columbia beat Shamrock II in the best of five races, winning heat No. 3 for a 3-0 victory and defense of the Cup. In each race:

Sept. 28, 1st race, 30 miles, Windward-Leeward Course: Columbia beat Shamrock II by 01 minute 20 sec in corrected time.

October 3 Thursday – At 8 a.m. Clemens, Joe Twichell, and possibly others met at the foot of West 35th Street, and boarded the Kanawha. H.H. Rogers may have already been on board. The yacht cruised off of Sandy Hook, N.J. to view the heat of the America’s Cup race, which had been thought to be the third in the best of five, but was the second. The heat this day began at 11 a.m. and finished at 3:16 p.m. [NY Times, Oct.

September 29 Sunday – At the Grosvenor Hotel, N.Y. Sam wrote (on the margins of Twichell’s Sept. 27 letter) to H.H. Rogers: “Dear Mr. Rogers: I shall try to get in, tomorrow or Tuesday & telegraph Twichell what day to come, & what hour in the morning, & whether at West 35th st, or where” [MTHHR 474-5]. Note: this about viewing the America’s Cup third heat on Oct. 4.

Sam also wrote to Joe Twichell.

September 27 Friday – Joe Twichell wrote to Sam, answering his invitation to join the cruise to view the “No. 3” boat race:

September 25 Wednesday – In Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.

The trouble with Tom Reed is that he don’t belong to no church & ain’t got no sympathy with suffering. How much would they allow us on an umbrella-display at the Pan-American?

You can have half [MTHHR 473]. Note: a continuation of the “missing umbrella” in-joke.

September 24 Tuesday – The Clemens family was in Elmira, likely at Quarry Farm. Sam wrote to

H.H Rogers:

We shall reach town Thursday Evening—Grosvenor hotel.

If you get the umbrella, don’t send it there, let the Guaranty Trust take care of it for a day or two—get a check for it.

September 23 Monday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.