April 22 Tuesday – In the morning Clara Clemens left for Paris with a chaperone on the German liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. It had been arranged for her to take some singing lessons there, and also to meet Ossip Gabrilowitsch . Though fraught with foreboding about leaving her mother, her future husband had assured her in a letter of Apr. 6 that such “single haunting ideas” were childish and that nothing would happen. Clara would reach Paris about May 1 [My Husband Gabrilowitsch 24-25; NY Times, Apr.

April 21 Monday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote a postcard replying to William Dean Howells’ Apr.

“I forgot to say I made immediate note of that luncheon, & shall be at your house & ready to go with you at 1 p.m on the said date” [MTP]. Note: the lunch date was for Apr. 26.

Sam also wrote a chastening letter to Nathaniel S. Olds, of the Rochester Post-Express.

April 20 Sunday – Sam returned from Princeton, N.J. to Riverdale. In the evening he substituted for someone who was to introduce the actress Clara Morris (Mrs. Frederick C. Harriott) (1848-1925) at Wallack’s Theatre. Morris was called a genius and a great “emotional actress.” Her career was brief but she was a memorable star. The New York Times reported the event on Apr. 21, p.2, “Clara Morris Tells of Stage Life Trials”:

April 19 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam replied to Chatto & Windus’ Apr. 10

“The above is all right & satisfactory. Sell to Tauchnitz, if he wants it—& Robert Lutz. Harpers ought to have given you earlier notice.

In a hurry to catch a train, …” [MTP].

Insert: Hartford Courant for Apr. 19, 1902 (note: no price given)

April 18 Friday – In N.Y.C. William Dean Howells wrote to Sam.

“Come here at one o’clock Saturday the 26th, and go with me to lunch with a lot of good fellows, who want you more than they know. I would not ask you if I did not believe you would have a good talk and a good time” [MTHL 2: 741]. Note: Sam agreed on Apr. 21.

Livy’s diary: “Mr Norman Hapgood here for luncheon. Mrs Hutchins Hapgood here for tea” [MTP: DV161].

April 17 Thursday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote on Thomas B. Reed’s note to H.H. Rogers [MTP].

April 16 Wednesday – Sam wrote a PS to his “A Defence of General Funston” article, which ran in the May issue of the N.A.R.

April 15 Tuesday – Livy’s diary: “The Misses Selfridge & Miss Mayo here for tea” [MTP: DV161].

April 14 before – Dr. Richard H. Jesse, President of the University of Missouri, wrote to Sam:

April 13 Sunday – Clemens wrote “A Defence of General Funston,” which ran in the May issue of the North American Review [Apr. 14 to Rogers]. Note: the article may be found in Zwick’s Mark Twain’s Weapons of Satire, etc. p.119-32 (1992). Paine observes this article “stirred up a good deal of a storm” [MTB 1165].