February 18 Friday - In Hamilton, Bermuda, Helen S. Allen finished Sam’s Feb. 17 to Albert B. Paine.
Stormfield - Day By Day
February 20 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Katy Leary.
Dear Katie: / I enclose page 1 of a letter just received from Mrs. Ossip. It troubles me because she seems to have gotten the impression (the superstition), that your authority as housekeeper is not supreme. But it is supreme, There is no housekeeper but you. No one but you has anything to do with the housekeeping. No one but you can hire or discharge a house-servant, or give to a house-servant an order not proper for a guest to give.
February 21 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Julia Langdon Loomis (Mrs. Edward E. Loomis)
Julie dear, bless your heart it was a pleasure to serve Jervis, not a trouble. Think what he & Edward are doing for me & mine, I don’t forget it, & I am very grateful for it.
February 22 Tuesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam added to his Feb. 21 to daughter Clara,
February 23 Wednesday-In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Feb, 21 and 22 to daughter Clara, 117 W. 69 St. NYC c/o Miss Gordon.
February 24 Thursday - W.T. Mossman, music hall manager, Pittsburg wrote to Sam, “humorously complaining of the quality of printing in the Twain books, while lengthily recounting details of Twain’s life” [MTP: ]. Fricelli Assoc. auction, catalog #7, Brooklyn].
February 25 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Paine.
Perhaps I have no business to be dictating, and I have refrained all day, because my bronchitis makes it troublecome for me to talk.
I have nothing to say that would not keep over another steamer, but I must bark enough to assure you that I am not in the least degree troubled about those stocks.
February 27 Sunday - Amelia C. Householder wrote from Maple Glen, Penn. to offer condolences and hoped for a reply [MTP].
February 28 Monday — Lauron Clemens Sears wrote from Ada, Okla. “Dear Sir..I am a little boy 9 years old and am named after you. In some way through the Johnson’s we are related. I would like to exchange pictures with you so you would know what I look like. I know your picture wherever I see it. / I hope you will answer this” [MTP].
March 2 Wednesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.
Dear Paine: / We sent you a list of the checks but failed the one we finished with therefore we will rectify this blunder by making a new list & bringing it down to date.
April 3 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to the Clowns of Barnum & Bailey Circus, who had cabled him this day asking him the following:
THE CLOWNS OF BARNUM AND BAILEYS CIRCUS RECOGNIZING YOU AS THE WORLDS GREATEST LAUGHMAKER WILL CONSIDER IT AN HONOR IF YOU WILL BE THEIR LUNCHEON GUEST AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SUNDAY AFTERNOON APRIL THIRD AT TWO WILL YOU PLEASE ANSWER COLLECT BARNUM AND BAILEY [MTP].
Sam’s reply by collect cable:
March 4 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B, Paine in Redding, Conn.
March 6 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote a humorous receipt for Miss Helen S. Allen.
Received of S. L. C.
Two Dollars and Forty Cents
in return for my promise to believe everything he says hereafter.
[signed] Helen S. Allen
[verso] For Sale
March 8 Tuesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Dorothy Quick. Text not available [MTP].
Albert B. Paine wrote to Sam. (Only the envelope survives) [MTP].
March 9 Wednesday — David Alexander Munro, age 66, assistant editor of the North American Review under Col. Harvey, died in NYC after a seven-week illness. Munro was also a Greek scholar [NY Times, Mar. 10, 1910, “David A. Munro Dead”]. See entries Vol. III.
March 10 Thursday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens about his bank statement and thanked Sam for his list of checks sent. He wondered if Jean’s estate should be settled and suggested a “Jean Clemens Memorial Library building on the lot Adams donated. Jean passed there every day on her way to the mail and the farm was her joy. She spent eight of her happiest months here in Redding, & she loved it here, and I would like the people to remember her and love her memory” [MTP].
March 11 Friday — Sam went to the Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda to hear the garrison band play. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Collier arrived for a two-week stay in the Islands [Mar. !2 to Clara].
March 12 Saturday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch and Ossip Gabrilowitsch.
March 13 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Dorothy Quick, who evidently had just been in Bermuda with her mother but had left on a family emergency.
March 16 Wednesday — Elinor Comstock wrote from NYC, trusting that Clemens wouldn’t mind including his name in her list of references for the formation of a new school in NY [MTP].
March 17 Thursday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam began a letter to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. that he finished Mar, 18,
Dear Paine,
March 18 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Mar. 17 to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. after receiving Paine’s Mar. 12 (not extant).
Yours of March 12th just received.
It will be best for you to make stable arrangements, horses & so forth according to your own jugdement without consulting with Clara in Germany I desire this.
I have crossed out what I wrote about a monthly allowance for Clara. I didn’t know she took so much money with her[.]
March 21 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Miss Sulamith Ish-Kishor.
Dear Miss Sulamith,
I think it is a remarkable dream for a girl of 13 to have dreamed, in fact for a person of any age to have dreamed, because it moves by regular grade and sequence from the beginning to the end, which is not the habit of dreams. I think your report of it is a good piece of work, a clear and effective statement of the vision.
March 22 Tuesday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: “I went on yesterday & was advised by Freeman to buy ‘Am. Telephone & Teleg.’ At 140 & 141, a suggeston to which Loomis & Lark promptly agreed,” He bought 100 shares and wrote when the Harper money came they might want another 100 [MTP].
George Jay Gould and Edith M. Gould sent a wedding announcement and invitation at the wedding of their daughter Marjorie Gwynne on Apr. 19 [MP].
March 23 Wednesday — Sophie Easton Woods wrote from St. Louis, Mo. to Sam: “I enjoyed your steamer letter so much, and it was so sweet of you to have written it. I will keep it always.... I did not see Captain Fraser, so I could not give him your message.... I am your loving little friend” [MTP].