June 8 Friday – Clara Clemens’ 32 birthday. She called her father on the telephone, that device he used to swear and rail at in Hartford in the late 1870s [June 9 to Clara]. nd
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June 9 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to daughter Clara.
Clärchen dear, many happy returns! it was a joy to hear your dear voice in the telephone yesterday.
Clärchen dear, many happy returns! it was a joy to hear your dear voice in the telephone yesterday.
June 10 Sunday – In the evening in Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
Let me congratulate, let me shout! I wrote you a good deal of a letter to-day, & took a world of pains with it, in the pretty doubtful hope of persuading you to put the work aside a while & not destroy yourself with it, but I have burnt it without a regret for the labor wasted. Charlotte dear, you have come through handsomely, you remarkable creature! Take a good satisfying rest— you deserve it.
June 11 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson, trying to cheer her up; she was discouraged “after a long hard siege of work,” as he put it. He regretted his “foolish letter” to her, and acknowledged that her “nerves would be worn” from her “long toil.”
June 12 Tuesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Samuel S. McClure. “Just please call on Mr. Rogers & talk your ideas to him about everything. The idea of syndicating those books seems to me a good one & I dont see that it could be objectionable to the publishers at all” [MTP].
June 13 Wednesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote one sentence to H.H. Rogers, asking him to get his Christian Science book from Harper’s and put it in his safe until he arrived [MTHHR 610].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Beginning of headache. E
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Beginning of headache. E
June 14 Thursday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Miss Martha S. Bensley (later Bruere) (1879-1953), author who had her articles on the Russian revolution published in the Mar. 1906 issue of the A.F. of Labor’s magazine, American Federationist.
June 15 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
June 16 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam began a long letter to Charlotte Teller Johnson he added to on June 17, 18. Several portions of pages were cut out.
June 17 Sunday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam added to his June 16 to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
Sunday continued. I’ve come back to bed—there was no way to put in the time. It is still raining as hard as ever, & is reposeful & contenting. I finished both letters—oh, acres of MS!— make them kill time for me as long as I could. If by good luck Mr. Rogers says yes—but I know he will, & then I shall do as I’ve said.
Sunday continued. I’ve come back to bed—there was no way to put in the time. It is still raining as hard as ever, & is reposeful & contenting. I finished both letters—oh, acres of MS!— make them kill time for me as long as I could. If by good luck Mr. Rogers says yes—but I know he will, & then I shall do as I’ve said.
June 18 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam finished his June 16, 17 to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
June 19 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
June 20 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
“There was a row in Silver Street”
“There was a row in Silver Street”
June 21 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Early the King said: “No dictating today.”
June 22 Friday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Upton Sinclair.
In dictating the morning’s chap in my auto one day last week I uttered a paragraph which indicates that I realize the magnitude & effectiveness of the earthquake which “The Jungle” has set going under the Canned Polecat Trust of Chicago.
In dictating the morning’s chap in my auto one day last week I uttered a paragraph which indicates that I realize the magnitude & effectiveness of the earthquake which “The Jungle” has set going under the Canned Polecat Trust of Chicago.
June 23 Saturday – About this day Sam gave Lyon a memo to write Witter Bynner: “Write Bynner that Mr. Clemens feels that McClure is a publisher & not an editor. Can’t you look over that Ms.” [MTP]. Note: Bynner was an editor at this time for McClure’s. See ca. June 10 entry.
Another memo was given to Lyon, this for Samuel S. McClure likely having to do with the same above reply to Bynner. Both memos carry a “?” for this date: “Telegraph Mr. McClure that Mr. Clemens can see him at noon on Wednesday June 27” [MTP].
Another memo was given to Lyon, this for Samuel S. McClure likely having to do with the same above reply to Bynner. Both memos carry a “?” for this date: “Telegraph Mr. McClure that Mr. Clemens can see him at noon on Wednesday June 27” [MTP].
June 24 Sunday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam gave Lyon instructions to write Ralph W. Ashcroft about a perceived “insulting advertisement” by Harpers, which stated that he was going to withdraw his Christian Science book from publication. Would Ashcroft look in Publisher’s Weekly for April 1903? [MTP].
Sam also replied to the June 22 of Brander Matthews (the note sent by hand to 121 E. 18 , NYC).
June 25 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
Dear Charlotte, I am called from this solitude to that of the society of Katy & the butler at No. 21 for a day or two, & am due to arrive there at 6 p.m. to-morrow. If you haven’t registered any crimes against me in the past ten days I hope you will be so good & so kind as to appear at 21 Wednesday morning at 10—if that isn’t too early for you—& let me look at you. Could you? Would you? Will you? [MTP].
Dear Charlotte, I am called from this solitude to that of the society of Katy & the butler at No. 21 for a day or two, & am due to arrive there at 6 p.m. to-morrow. If you haven’t registered any crimes against me in the past ten days I hope you will be so good & so kind as to appear at 21 Wednesday morning at 10—if that isn’t too early for you—& let me look at you. Could you? Would you? Will you? [MTP].
June 26 Tuesday – Sam left Dublin, N.H. and traveled first to Boston, then on to New York. If his plans went as he’d told Charlotte Teller on June 25, he arrived home at 6 p.m. (See IVL’s journal entry below). In the evening he wrote to William Dean Howells
It is lovely of you to say those beautiful things—I don’t know how to thank you enough. But I love you, that I know.
It is lovely of you to say those beautiful things—I don’t know how to thank you enough. But I love you, that I know.
June 27 Wednesday – In NYC Sam went to see H.H. Rogers but he was in a board meeting; he talked with Katharine I. Harrison. In the evening Miss Lilly Burbank and Miss Mosher were passing by his house and he had a chat with them at the gate [June 28 to Jean Clemens].
Notes: Miss Emily W. Burbank (ca.1869-1934), NY writer and lecturer, and Miss Florence Mosher, had been a pupil of Leschetizky. Both ladies were friends of Clara and Jean Clemens.
Notes: Miss Emily W. Burbank (ca.1869-1934), NY writer and lecturer, and Miss Florence Mosher, had been a pupil of Leschetizky. Both ladies were friends of Clara and Jean Clemens.
June 28 Thursday – At 5 a.m., 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to daughter Jean, still in Dublin, N.H.
Jean dear, it is 5 a.m., this not being a good atmosphere to sleep in. I had a pleasant enough journey, (Tuesday) & went to bed almost as soon as I arrived; but I was not tired & not drowsy.
Jean dear, it is 5 a.m., this not being a good atmosphere to sleep in. I had a pleasant enough journey, (Tuesday) & went to bed almost as soon as I arrived; but I was not tired & not drowsy.
June 29 Friday – NYC: Early in the morning Sam went with H.H. Rogers on his yacht Kanawha and sailed to Fairhaven; He slept on board [June 28 to Jean; 1 and 2 July to Clara].
In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon’s journal:
[written diagonally] I am giving birth to something. The parturition pains are great & the birth is a slow one—weeks & weeks. I know not what shall be born but it will be greater—greater than I, & the shell of me is not worthy to be the mother.
In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon’s journal:
[written diagonally] I am giving birth to something. The parturition pains are great & the birth is a slow one—weeks & weeks. I know not what shall be born but it will be greater—greater than I, & the shell of me is not worthy to be the mother.
June 30 Saturday – In Fairhaven, Mass. Sam rose at 5 a.m. and after luncheon “began to play billiards & kept it up until a quarter past 2 this morning [July 1]” [July 1 to Jean].
Gertrude Natkin’s diary: “On June 30, Mr. Clemens sent me Eve’s Diary with his autograph” [MTAq 30].
July – Harper’s Monthly published Sam’s article, “William Dean Howells,” p. 221-5 [Budd, Collected 2: 1011].
The Reader carried a photograph by Underwood & Underwood of Mark Twain reading in bed [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Third Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Autumn 1979 p. 191].
July 1 Sunday – In the evening in Fairhaven, Mass. Sam wrote to daughter Jean in Dublin, N.H.