October 4 Wednesday – Kate D. Barstow wrote from Wash. DC to Sam that her son Joe died on the 11th from diphtheria and her fear that it would spread to her other children. Lectures at Howard Univ. “begin this week…Please send me forty dollars” [MTP].
October 3 Tuesday – Sam wrote a long letter from Hartford to Charles Webster, explaining agreements past and actions taken with Slote & Co. about payments on scrapbook sales [MTBus 201-3].
Mark Twain’s Summer Home
October 2 Monday – William F. Smith wrote from Chatham, England asking Sam’s opinion on a small book sent, that he said was “stillborn” [MTP].
Charles Webster wrote that he had a large safe in Fredonia, and on the way to Chicago he’d have it sent down, which would save Sam from buying one [MTP].
October 1 Sunday – Sam completed the letter, full of estimates, calculations and budgets he began Sept. 30 to Karl Gerhardt. He wrote they “just had our first brief glimpse of Twichell,” who returned from a three-month trip to Europe. Twichell had visited the Gerhardts in Paris.
September 30 Saturday – Sam began a long letter from Hartford to Karl and Hattie Gerhardt whose expenditures in Paris, France had been increasing beyond Sam’s original pledge of $3,000 support for Karl’s three-year schooling [MTNJ 2: 506].
James R. Osgood per W. Rowland wrote a package from A.V.S. Anthony and acknowledged another installment rec’d from Sam’s MS [MTP].
September 29 Friday – Sam wrote from the editorial department of the Century Magazine, Union Square, New York to George W. Cable.
September 28 Thursday – The Clemens family left Elmira and traveled to New York for their eventual return to Hartford. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western depot was in Hoboken, New Jersey; passengers had to ferry from Hoboken to New York. Sam registered the family at the Brunswick Hotel in New York.
September 27 Wednesday – Charles Webster wrote: “In regard to Ogilvie we are getting out an injunction, bringing a civil suit against them for damages for using your trade mark and signing it to ‘stuff’ you never wrote. Then, we are trying to get a criminal indictment against them before the grand jury” [MTP].
September 26 Tuesday – Page Mercer Baker for New Orleans Times-Democrat wrote, sending the article that Sam had asked for in his Sept. 22 letter. He spoke of the “evening we spent at Johns—the good stories over the wine, the music (in which Cables thin but melodious tenor mingled sweetly with Burthes magnificent baritone)…etc.” [MTP]. Note: the evening was May 2; see entry.