August 16 Monday — Paine writes of Sam’s reading and of events in the evening:
August 16. He is reading Suetonius, which he already knows by heart — so full of the cruelties and licentiousness of imperial Rome.
This afternoon he began talking about Claudius,
August 17 Tuesday - Sam's new guest book:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Mr. Lark | New York | Aug 17, 1909 |
August 18 Wednesday - Sam's new guest book:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Miss Lyons | New York | Aug 18, 1909 | |
| FA Duneka | New York | " " | (Both sober) |
August 19 Thursday — David Rutherford wrote from London, offering to illustrate for nothing:
Dear Sir, / In the “Idler” of February 1898 there appeared an article by Robert Barr in which he exposed a “system” advised by you for those in want of work and which had been acted upon very successfully in a number of instances by those who applied it. [...]
August 24 Tuesday — In his Lyon-Ashcroft MS Clemens wrote on Aug. 25 of this day:
August 25 Wednesday — William Dean Howells wrote from Carlsbad, Austria to Sam.
Dear Clemens: / Your friendly letter of prevention found me already taking quarts of cure, here. I hated abominably to come, but doctors and dear ones of all ages and sexes joined in thrusting me away. Surgeons suggested prying me open with cutlasses, and painted the process in glowing colors. But the next time I have bilious colic that ties me up in a double bow-knot I will get an osteopath to untangle me.
August 26 Thursday —In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Héléne Elisabeth Picard.
August 27 Friday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Margery H. Clinton in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.
August 31 Tuesday
August 31? Tuesday — In Redding, Conn. Sam replied to David Rutherford’s offer of Aug. 19 to illustrate Sam’s next book for nothing, thereby applying what he perceived to be Mark Twain’s “system” of rising in business. Sam wrote on Rutherford’s letter:
September — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Marjorie Breckenridge.
I can’t, Marjorie dear, my activities are pretty definitely suspended. I can’t drive, I can’t walk, I am a prisoner. I am as well as anybody—as long as I keep still; but the least little exertion gives me such a bitter pain in the chest that I could enjoy it more than anything in the world if somebody else had it.
You must look in on me, Marjorie, & if I get over this before you go away, I’ll pay back. /Affectionately / [MTP; MTAq 265].
September 1 Wednesday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Marjorie Breckinridge | New([?] Cabin in the Glen | Sept 1 | Note: Breckenridge, not Breckinridge] |
September 5 Sunday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Harriet C.J. Sprague | Sharon, Connecticut | Sept 5,1909 | |
| Frank J. Sprague | The Saints [?] in the Summer | No later — |
Frances Nunnally sent Sam a picture postcard of West Main St., Waterbury, Conn.
Dear Mr. Clemens
September 6 Monday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Dr. Wiley | Sept. 6 | ||
| Mrs. Wiley | " 6 | ||
| Mr. Dearborn | New York | " 6&7 | On business connected with the Robert Fulton Memorial |
September 7 Tuesday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote on letterhead of The Robert Fulton Monument Association to Harry Windsor Dearborn, listed as “Ass’t Secretary” of the association.
September 9 Thursday — In Redding, Conn. Albert B. Paine wrote for Sam to Archibald Henderson.
September 10 Friday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Helen Schuyler Allen in Franklin, N.Y. Text is not available [MTP].
Sam also wrote a postcard to Dorothy Quick.
I am glad to hear you are enjoying yourself. I am still a prisoner in the house these past 3 months, with no prospect of getting out for a long time to come. But I guess it’s all right. Infirmities & disabilities are quite proper to old age, Have a good time while you are young, dear! /With lots of love / ...[MTP; MTAq 264].
September 12 Sunday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Irving Batcheller | Sept 12 | ||
| & 3 friends |
September 13 Monday — The New York Times, p.8, reported a resolution to the Clemens-Ashcroft conflict and law suits:
MARK TWAIN SUITS ALL OFF.
All Litigation Between Him and the Ashcrofts is Finally Dropped
The differences between Mark Twain and his daughter, Miss Clara Clemens, on the one side, and his former secretary Mrs. Ralph Ashcroft, and her husband have been settled without an appeal to the courts. All criticism of the conduct of Mrs. Ashcroft has been withdrawn and all suits have been dropped.
September 14 Tuesday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Melville E. Stone.
Dear Stone: / I have been a sick man for several months, & shut up in the house by the doctors, & you go & choose this time to have a banquet, when I can’t come! I am sorry. But I don't blame you—you couldn’t help it.
September 15 Wednesday - In Redding, Conn, Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer in Lake Placid, N.Y.
You thoughtless little rascal, why didn’t you tell me where you were going to be, now? You are gone from Lake Placid by this time, & this letter won’t ever reach you.
September 16 Thursday — In Redding, Conn, Sam replied to the Sept. 13 from James Beauchamp (“Champ”) Clark in Bowling Green, Mo.
Dear Champ Clark:
I am glad I have made another convert. This makes two, for sure, for while I was at it I converted myself. Well, no—that happened earlier.
September 18 Saturday - Sam wrote across all columns of his Stormfield new guestbook:
September 18, anniversary. A year ago the burglars broke into the house at midnight. They were condemned to terms of 4 & 9 years. Persons of their sort had been plying their trade in the house for a long time, but we were not aware of it. This 18th closed all falatious [2 illegible words].
September 19 Sunday — In Redding, Conn. Sam began a letter to Joe Twichell that he added a line to on Sept. 27.
Dear Joe— / Nine days ago it was all arranged, & the writings drawn & signed, & yesterday the last little details were accomplished which wiped the slate clean of all connection with that criminal couple & dismisse's them out of our lives. And by George! yesterday was an anniversary—the date that the two burglars broke into this house!
September 20 Monday — In Redding, Conn. Albert B. Paine wrote for Sam to Archibald Henderson.
September 21 Tuesday — Paine writes of a dream Sam related:
September 21. This morning he told me, with great glee, the dream he had had just before wakening.
He said:
“I was in an automobile going slowly, with ‘a little girl beside me, and some uniformed person walking along by us. I said, ‘I’ll get out and walk, too’; but the officer replied, ‘This is only one of the smallest of our fleet.’