May 2 Thursday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to W.L. Howard, thanking for the invitation but declining as he was no longer in the lecture field. After his signature he added, “If I were not permanently tired of travel, I would make that trip; but I hope I have made my last journey” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Laurence Hutton.
May 1 Wednesday – In the evening from 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Katharine I. Harrison that H.H. Rogers had approved of a purchase of Chicago & Alton preferred stock in the amount of $10,000. “Therefore,” he wrote, “I am prepared to send you the check at any moment you require it” [MTP].
Sam also wrote to Edward W. Ordway, secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League.
May – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to William Dean Howells.
Dear Howells: / Won’t you come down & dine tomorrow, 7.30? Nobody but the family & Rev. Geo.
Williamson Smith, (President of Trinity, Hartford)—one of the loveliest men alive.
April 30 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Pamela to dinner Dimmock? 12.30” [NB 44 TS 9]. Note: Mr. & Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, of New York. Social Register,. NY of July 1911 gives as “Dimock” with Henry deceased in April, 1911.
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
437 Self 300.00
April 29 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “University Club 8. Mabie—finished his work on Shakespeare—is made Trumbull Lecturer of Johns Hopkins Berkeley Theatre, 21 W. 44th near 5th ave. Graham Bell, Box B” [NB 44 TS 9]. Note: Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916) had finished his Shakespeare book (William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist, and Man (1902), and had assumed the Trumbull leadership at Johns Hopkins [Gribben 433].
April 27 Saturday – [date in a PDF box]
Sam’s notebook: “Brooklyn Clerical Union Funk (J.K.) 30 Layfayette Place. / Dinner— 5.30 (& Livy) Montauk Club. / Take Flatbush ave trolley at end of bridge—get out at cor 8the ave & Flatbush— Montauk is only a few doors away” [NB 44 TS 9].
Sam spoke at the Mauntauk Club, Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Clerical Union. The New York Sun, p.1 covered the event:
TWAIN’S RETORT TO DR. SPAULDING.
April 26 Friday – Sam wrote to Hiram Stevens Maxim, the letter not extant but referred to in Maxim’s May 8 reply [MTP].
Sam’s notebook: “Dinner” [NB 44 TS 9].
April 25 Thursday – Sam had been asked to preside at the dinner of the Get Together Club in Arlington Hall, but sent a letter pleading poor health. The gathering and the letter was reported by the New York Times, Apr. 25, p.9:
MARK TWAIN TO THE CLUB
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Why He Did Not Attend the Dinner of the Get Together Organization No. 3.
April 24 Wednesday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam replied to Rudolf Lindau, in care of the German Embassy, Constantinople, Turkey. Lindau’s incoming is not extant.
April 23 Tuesday – In N.Y.C., Sam wrote a short note to George S. Seymour, enclosing a 1899 photo of himself: “Here you have it, & on Shakespeare’s birth-day at that” [MTP]. Note: Seymour is not identified.
Sam received a letter and check from John Y. MacAlister [Apr. 24 to MacAlister]. Note: incoming not extant.
Sam’s notebook: “Read in Princeton Heptagon — 7.30” [NB 44 TS 9].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]