October 21 Wednesday – Sam went to New York City and attended a banquet for Lord Northcliffe at the Union Club, given by Leigh Hunt. He wrote of the evening in his Oct. 23. That excerpt:
I stopped over in New York, night before last, for a banquet to Lord Northcliff, given at the Union club by Leigh Hunt. I didn’t go until 10 P.M. & so it didn’t tire me.
October 20 Tuesday – Sam was at Col. Harvey’s “country house” in Deal Beach, N.J. [IVL Oct. 19].
Isabel Lyon’s journal: A good part of the burglar alarm system was installed yesterday. The gong is just outside my door, the indicator is just in my bath room, and last night I slept as I have not slept for nearly 5 weeks, for there has been no night since Sept. 18th without a terrified mental shriek in it. It is not fear, it is a pathological condition.
Such deeps of loneliness with the King away!
October 19 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “This servant question is an anxiety. The running of the house is a big business. It almost commercializes one—first now the little house maid who has come and leans over me to say that she cannot stay unless she is able to go home nights to sleep with her mother. The quaint wee soul! I’m letting her go home to her mother’s bed tonight; but also she goes to talk to her mother and to try to make herself and her mother believe that she will get over her homesickness. Poor wee soul!
October 18 Sunday – Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Miss Ethel Newcomb Interior N.Y. (& Vienna) October 18-21
October 17 Saturday – Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Geo. Neilgruen )
Gustave Kobbé ) From Harper & Bros, N.Y. October 17 To discuss my new copyright law
Mr. Phayre )
Note: Gustav Kobbé (1856-1918) was an author in his own right, with at least two books on opera. At the time of his accidental death from a hydroplane, Kobbe was the music and art critic of the NY Herald. John F. Phayne of Harpers.
October 16 Friday – The New York Times, p. 9, “Says Arnold Daly Will Try Vaudeville,” reported that Percy Williams, vaudeville manager and proprietor of the Orpheum circuit announced that Arnold Daly and company would produce a new one-act farce by Mark Twain entitled “Becoming An Editor,” which would open at the Colonial Theatre in Brooklyn on Oct. 26.
Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
October 15 Thursday – Sam’s original guestbook contains the following names for this date, which do not appear in the new guestbook, transcribed after Dec. 28: Kate V. Saint Maur, The Maples, Redding; Vida C – – ly Sidney, Siasconset Mass.; Fanny Sanford Shaw, Redbank, N.J. [Mac Donnell TS 5, 7]. Note: p. 6 is left blank.
October 14 Wednesday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer.
October 13 Tuesday – Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Mrs. Laura Hawkins Frazer Hannibal, Missouri October 15 ——— > My first sweetheart (65 years ago when she was 6 or 7 years old.)
Her granddaughter Clara “ “ “ “
October 12 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam finished his Oct. 10 to Frances Nunnally.
Monday, Oct. 12—noon.