June 20 Monday – In Hartford Sam wrote to the Tri-State Old Settlers Association, declining an invitation to attend some function.
Dear Sir: — Frankness, candor, truthfulness — these are native to my nature; and so I will not conceal from you the fact that if there is one thing which I am particularly and obstinately prejudiced against, it is travel [MTP].
June 19 Sunday – On or just after this date, In Hartford, Sam answered James W. See’s June 17 inquiry. There was no Western manufacturer and See should work with Slote & Co. On scrapbook matters, as Sam was bound by his contract [MTP].
June 17 Friday – James W. See of Hamilton, Ohio wrote to Sam desiring to represent and/or manufacture the Mark Twain Scrapbooks in the West [MTP]. A soldier’s monument was dedicated in New Haven — Sam may have been invited and attended, since he had been elected a life member of the Putnam Phalanx, a social and ceremonial military organization [MTNJ 3: 294n230]. Note: Sam wrote on the envelope, “Brer. W.
June 16 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Webster. He thought Webster’s settlement with J.M. Stoddart .was “quite fortunate” (see June 14 from Webster). He’d written William L. Alden as Webster requested, declining the Garibaldi autobiography.
June 15 Wednesday – Joseph Jefferson wrote to Sam asking for his MS and Sam’s opinion [MTP].
June 14 Tuesday – Charles Webster wrote to Sam of “$6,500 in cash, and $4,700 in notes” for the Apr. 12 lawsuit award of $13,200 against J.M. Stoddart & Co. who had failed to pay for copies of Grant’s Memoirs. They had argued that they suffered losses based on John Wanamaker’s discount sale of books, a practice they felt Webster & Co.
June 13 Monday – The date given by Edward H. House in a New York Times article of Jan. 27, 1890, “Mark Twain Hauled Up,” p.5 for House’s reading of his dramatization of P&P to Sam. From the Times:
June 11 Saturday – In Hartford Sam responded through Franklin G. Whitmore to E.S. Walton’s June 10 inquiry: Tell him arrangements have already been made” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Frederick E. Church about the recent stay at Church’s mansion.
It was an ideal holiday, in a Garden of Eden without the Garden of Eden’s unprotection from weather [MTP].
June 10 Friday – Sam and Livy returned to Hartford from their short “vacation” to Frederick E. Church’s mansion near Hudson, New York [MTNJ 3: 293n227].
E.S. Walton of New York, whose enclosed card reads, “Leading Comedian” wrote to Sam:
June 9 Thursday – The last full day at Frederick E. Church’s “Olana” mansion. Sam and Joe Twichell went for a hike. Grace King joined them and wrote about it the next day: