January 21 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Paine,—Thanks for your letter, and for its contenting news of the situation in that foreign and far-off and vaguely-remembered country where you and Loomis and Lark and other beloved friends are.
I have Letter from Clara this morning. She is solicitous, and wants me well and watchfully taken care of. My, she ought to see Helen and her parents and Claude administer that trust!
January 24 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Paine:
Can you get this note to Mr. Moroso for me?
And will you send the poem to Clara when you write her?
January 25 Tuesday
January 25? Tuesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote on the Jan. 20 letter from Dora Prentice Wills to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.: “Paine, write her one of your darlingest letters for me. SLC / Paine, Claude does not want his money. He will cash the check, but don’t send any more. SLC” [MTP].
January 26 Wednesday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer in Greenwich, Conn.
Dear Margaret— / So you have reached Rosemary Hall at last. I know it must be recently, or you would have run up to see me at Stormfield.
I suppose I shant see Stormfield again very soon, I have no sorrowful associations with Bermuda, so I expect to spend a good deal of my time here in future, I am not in any hurry to go back to America.
January 27 Thursday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
January 28 Friday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:
I will forward our letter to the Poet Moroso. It will gratify him very much—more than any money payment he could receive, I am sure.
I am enclosing you an interesting batch best of all a letter from Clara, written eleven days ago. Perhaps she has one on the way to you, too—of course she has—but you will be glad to see this, no doubt. I’d like to have it again, by and by,
January 29 Saturday — Sam finished his Jan. 26 to Elizabeth Wallace.
January 30 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916), prior Postmaster General briefly under Garfield (1881-1882); afterward until his death James was chairman of the board of directors of the Lincoln National Bank, NYC . See also Feb. 15 entry.
Dear General—
Please send me fifty dollars. Send it in silver American quarter pieces. Don’t send old rusty ones. Send bright and white and new ones just out of the mint. I have a special use for them. I enclose a check.
Sincerely yours,
January 31 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam inscribed a copy of “Is Shakespeare Dead?” From My Autobiography to Marion S, Allen (Mrs. William H. Allen). “We ought never to break the Sabbath during a thunderstorm. /Truly Yours /Mark Twain / To / Mrs. William Allen / with the respect, esteem, and affectionate regards of / The Author” [MTP].
Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:
February — Sam’s contribution to the essays, “The Turning Point of My Life,” ran in this issue of Harper’s Bazar. This was a series of notable men who contributed individual essays on the theme. Hill writes of Twain’s contribution:
February 1 Tuesday -Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: “I sent you a good batch of stuff yesterday & found your letter ...at the station this morning. Also a letter for you from Clara which is here enclosed,” He offered bank data, and opinion on numbering letter pages and a few other short remarks [MTP].
February 2 Wednesday — Maude Jordan wrote from London to remind Sam of her letter and photos send for autograph and had not heard back [MTP]. Note: ABP: “Mr. Clemens is not in America & is not expected before May—”
Florence Rice Knox wrote “In the Suez Canal” (most certainly on a vessel) to offer condolences [MTP].
Los Angeles Saddle Club per J.H. Coker wrote to ask for Sam’s likeness to frame for their library wall [MTP].
February 3 Thursday — At the Bay House in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. Written to Paine just two months before Twain’s death, this note, in its black-bordered envelope (in mourning for Twain's daughter) concludes, as if in fun, with the words, I’ve got some more to say, but my secretary is busy & I am lazy” [MTP; Paraphrase: Dawson’s Bookshop catalogs, No. 150, Dec. 1940, Item 138].
February 4 Friday — At the Bay House in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Andrew Carnegie.
Dear St. Andrew:
This will introduce & endorse to you Mr. Morgan; & as this is the first time I have ever given anyone a letter of introduction to you out of 150 applications, “dying I salute you!” and urgently beg you to let him talk to you on a matter which is not trivial but is of very high importance to our country & to its loftiest interests.
February 5 Saturday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam inscribed his photograph to an unidentified woman: “To Etheldoralinda, from her principal best friend” [MTP]. Note: The playfulness of the name used by Sam infers a young lady.
Sam also began a letter to Albert B. Paine that he finished Feb. 7.
Dear Paine:
Your preliminary report is very fine.
Under “Salaries” it lacks one item, not yet payable: Stanchfield, which is about $80 a month.
February 6 Sunday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:
February 7 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Feb. 5 to Albert Bigelow Paine in Redding, Conn.
Monday, Feb. 7. Yesterday Mr. Allen took us on an excursion in Mr. Hamilton’s big motor boat. Present, Mrs, Allen, Mr. and Mrs. & Miss Sloan, Helen, Mildred Howells, Claude, & me. Several hours’ swift skimming over ravishing blue seas under a brilliant sun; also a couple of hours of picknicking & lazying under the cedars in a secluded place.
February 9 Wednesday — W.T. Whaley wrote in a child’s hand from Waxahachie, Texas to offer condolences and ask for a photograph [MTP].
February 10 Thursday Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: "Lounsbury thinks this man is going to take the Italian house at 5700.00, He will know in a day or two, and if he can, will close matters up this week or next”. He offered more details of costs and net [MTP]. Note: MT: “ans / approving / Feb. 14”
February 11 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote per Helen S. Allen to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Mr. Paine, / Mr. Clemens wants me to tell you that he approves of your project and also the terms [in SLC’s hand: suggested. /Helen.
P. S. The plan which would leave me 80 acres strikes me pleasantly.
February 12 Saturday - Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Irving Bacheller | [Illegible city] Conn. | Feb. 12,1910 |
The Danish-American (Independent Weekly) per Emil Opffer wrote from the Tribune Bldg., NYC:
February 14 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote a valentine poem to Helen S, Allen.
February 15 Tuesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Thomas Lemuel James.
Dear General,
The parcel of money shipped to me per Wells Fargo, February 4 has not yet arrived. I thought I would mention this in passing. But I mention it mainly to put you on your guard against sending anything to Bermuda or elsewhere by any express company, because the persons connected with those companies have been dead 30 years. This often causes delay, / Yours always / ... [MTP]. Note: see Jan. 30 to James.
February 16 Wednesday — Matthias Hollenbeck Arnot, Elmira financier and friend of Clemens, died at age 78 in Elmira, N.Y, reportedly worth fifty million dollars. He took none of it with him [NY Times, Feb. 16, 1910]. Note: Arnot was a principal backer of Sam’s Paige Typesetter. See Vol. II.
Sam came down with a head cold that lasted four days [Feb. 20 to Leary].
Daughter Clara wrote to Sam. The letter is not extant but replied to in Sam’s Mar, 6 [MTP].
February 17 Thursday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam began a letter to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. that he finished Feb, 18, which was in Helen Allen’s hand.
Dear Paine:
Let us not give up the tobacco forgery lightly. Even if Ashcroft could prove he was my authorized agent, he was still not authorized to use his authority to injure me & to steal £25 from me.