June 2 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam finished his May 29, 30, 31 to Charlotte Teller Johnson.
Dublin - 1906 Day By Day
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 3 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
The morning bed-talks are vastly interesting. I go into Mr. Clemens’s room a little before 9, after he has finished his breakfast. I make a good audience for him to talk against in order to get himself into the dictating swing. The day has passed long since when he discovered he couldn’t sting me by his tirades against the superstitions of the church & his disgust at those who worship “a tarbaby of a Jesus Christ” or the “dangling carcass of a virgin”, so he lets his speech flow freely on those subjects.
The morning bed-talks are vastly interesting. I go into Mr. Clemens’s room a little before 9, after he has finished his breakfast. I make a good audience for him to talk against in order to get himself into the dictating swing. The day has passed long since when he discovered he couldn’t sting me by his tirades against the superstitions of the church & his disgust at those who worship “a tarbaby of a Jesus Christ” or the “dangling carcass of a virgin”, so he lets his speech flow freely on those subjects.
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].
June 4 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Frederick A. Duneka.
I find that this “Library of Humor” is not the one which was compiled by me, but is a new book, in whose compilation I have had no part.Also, I find that this book is being actually “published” & its sale pushed.
Also I find that it is not a cheap book, “with no money in it for either of us,” but is cloth-bound & higher priced than my own book.
I find that this “Library of Humor” is not the one which was compiled by me, but is a new book, in whose compilation I have had no part.Also, I find that this book is being actually “published” & its sale pushed.
Also I find that it is not a cheap book, “with no money in it for either of us,” but is cloth-bound & higher priced than my own book.
June 5 Tuesday – Marguerite Merington wrote to Sam. “To-morrow –Wed. June 6, at four, Dr. Douglas Hyde, President of the Gaelic League and Mrs Hyde are coming to me at dear Ruth McEnery Stuart’s with whom I am staying. They would so greatly like to see you—Mrs Stuart joins me in warmly hoping that you and the Misses Clemens will come” [MTP].
June 6 Wednesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam sent a telegram to H.H. Rogers. “Yes still am investor to amount formaly mentioned Come up here both of you and I will return with you if properly invested”
Sam then wrote Rogers a letter:
I’ve been sending you a line by telegraph.
Sam then wrote Rogers a letter:
I’ve been sending you a line by telegraph.
June 7 Thursday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to daughter Clara at the 21 Fifth Ave. home in N.Y.C.
Clärchen dear, it is good news you send, very good news indeed. I take it that with your voice’s progress your health improves, too—may it continue!
I hope you will not have to stay in New York after this month, for I judge you are going to have blistering weather there.
Clärchen dear, it is good news you send, very good news indeed. I take it that with your voice’s progress your health improves, too—may it continue!
I hope you will not have to stay in New York after this month, for I judge you are going to have blistering weather there.
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
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.
May 15 Tuesday – Sam and Lyon left Boston and traveled by train to Dublin, N.H. [IVL May 15 TS 71].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
May 16 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
May 17 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Mr. Clemens reads poetry to Jean & me every evening. Such reading it is. There never was anyone to read so beautifully before & to charm you so & hurt you so” [MTP TS 72].
May 18 Friday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers. I am lying fallow here, all these days, & drowsing & resting. Life begins to stir in me at last, but I’ve no use for it yet, for my stenographer is delayed & I can’t begin work until 3 days hence.
May 19 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Orchestrelle put up today. / Mr. Paine & Miss Hobby are to arrive today” [MTP TS 72]. Note: the Aeolian Co. disassembled, shipped, and reassembled the Orchestrelle, from NY to Dublin, and returned it to NY after the season. The arrival of the biographer and stenographer on May 20 means Clemens did not dictate for his autobiography until Monday, May 21.
May 20 Sunday – On or after this date in Dublin, N.H., Sam replied to Roi Cooper Megrue’s May 19:
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