June 7 Wednesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to J. Henry Harper: “Please hand to bearer & charge to me, paper copy of your ‘Rudiments of Manners,’ also paper copy of your ‘How to Conceal Mental Vacancy & Seem Intelligent’” [MTP]. Note: Hill points out this sarcasm as one of Sam’s “savage moods” and “disbelief in the Harper integrity” [112].
The Man in the White Suit: Day By Day
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 7 Friday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam wrote a dedication to Steve Gillis: “To / Steve Gillis / with the unabated love / of his oldest friend— / Mark Twain / New York, June 7, 1907” [MTP].
June 7 Sunday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Ebenezer J. Hill, postmaster, N.Y. A draft plus a signed letter survive.
June 7 Monday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Amelia Dunne Hookway.
June 8 Thursday – Clara Clemens’ 31 birthday. Clara was in Norfolk, Conn. In Dublin,N.H. Sam wrote to her in care of Mrs. Bratenglier.
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 8 Saturday – Clara Clemens’ 33rd birthday. She saw her father off for England [MTB 1381]
June 8 Monday – Clara Clemens’ 34th birthday. Clara was in London on tour.
William Fitz-Simon wrote from Tuxedo Park, NY to Sam.
June 8 Tuesday — Clara Clemens’ 35th birthday. Sam left for New York and Baltimore with Albert Bigelow Paine. They would spend the night in NYC and leave for Baltimore and Catonsville, Maryland on June 9 [June 7 to Nunnally].
June 8-17 Monday – On board the S.S. Minneapolis en route to England, Sam wrote to Carlotta Welles (whom he dubbed “Charlie”) on a calling card:
“Charlie, dear, you don’t know what you are missing. There’s more than two thousand porpoises in sight, & eleven whales, & sixty icebergs, & both Dippers, & seven rainbows, & all the battleships of all the navies, & me. / SLC” [MTAq 40].
Sam’s A.D. of July wrote of the voyage and of Carlotta (Charlie):
June 9 Friday – Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to Robert E. Park, Secretary of the Congo Reform Association of America, in reference to John R. Gow’s June 6 inquiry. Some time ago Sam had instructed Harpers to forward “King Leopold’s Soliloquy” to them; he inquired on June 8 about the matter and they apologized that they’d been unable to find their address.
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 9 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Ah, it was fortunate that Santa and Will [Charles E. Wark] and I went off for a holiday up to the Bronx and to drive at—I cannot remember where. I believe my little remaining reason would have gone for I was growing lonelier with every hour, if we had not had real and new diversion. I shall stay on here until Thurs. or Friday, for now that C.C. has put all the house-keeping into my hands I shall begin tomorrow with these upper rooms [MTP TS 66].
June 9 Tuesday – Malcolm D. Graham wrote from Hamilton, Bermuda to Sam. “I am indeed glad to have traded the owner of the shell, and am returning it to you by the mail under registered cover & trust it will duly reach you.” He also discussed Bermuda’s weather [MTP]. Note: the “identification” shell was from Helen Blackmer; See May 25 to Graham.
June 9 Wednesday — Sam and Albert Paine arrived in Baltimore and took rooms at the Belvedere Hotel. Sam refused to see all reporters, who were clamoring for his response to charges of plagiarism for not fully crediting Greenwood in Is Shakespeare Dead? In the evening, in response to a written question on the matter, Sam gave a reply (see article following the next).
Late December – Mrs. Helen Grandin Lord, corresponding secretary of the Sorosis 1868 requested Sam’s presence on a printed invitation to luncheon on Monday, January 1 , 1906 at 1 p.m. at the Waldorf-Astoria. Sometime before that date Sam wrote on the invitation for Isabel Lyon: “Decline it” [MTP].
March 1 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Tonight Mr. Clemens talked about Mr. Howells. He doesn’t know why he is so loyal to Howells (literarily) and he told me how only recently Mr. Howells has been free from financial worry. He has managed in the long years to tuck away $60,000 in good investments, but that’s all. Then he talked about Bayard Taylor’s wonderful memory. It was brought up by the sense of the words “remember” and “recollect”. Mr.
March 1 Thursday – In Hartford, Sam luncheoned with friends assembled by Charles Hopkins Clark [Feb. 26 to Clark; ca. Mar. 10 to Clark]. F. Kaplan puts this at the Hartford Club and includes Joe Twichell [631]. Note: Clark wrote on Mar. 9 suggesting they split the bill for the lunch; Sam agreed.
March 1 Friday – Fatout lists a speech for Sam at the William Dean Howells dinner [MT Speaking 676]. Note: On Feb. 19, George B. Harvey had invited Sam for a Mar. 1 birthday dinner for Howells at the Cosmopolitan Club. No record was found for the contents of Sam’s remarks. See Feb. 19 entry.
Sam wrote “to any friend or acquaintance of mine” [MTP]. Note: not found at MTP.
Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Terrible headache” [MTP TS 32].
March 1 Sunday – In Bermuda, the Clemens party took an excursion to see the new island aquarium, which had opened on Jan. 1, 1908. D. Hoffman gives “the effervescent and obliging U.S. consul,” W. Maxwell Greene as organizer of the trip, and writes: Goodwin Gosling, secretary to the Bermuda Natural History Society, also came aboard….
March 1 Monday — On or about this day Jean Clemens moved from Babylon, Long Island (she hated it) to a cottage named “Wahnfried,” in Montclair, N.J., supervised by Miss Edith Clapp, a nurse. Jean had still not seen Stormfield [Hill 225]. Note: on Mar. 3 Sam replied to a non-extant letter from Jean; allowing a day each way would put Jean’s letter and probably her arrival in Montclair, to this day.
Sam’s new guestbook:
March 10 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave. in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) editor of Harper’s Bazar.
March 10 Saturday – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. Sam wrote a postcard to Edwina L. Levy. “Oh, dear me, Miss Levy! I’ve ‘lifted’ this English girl’s post-card without noticing what I was doing. But I’ll send her a more recent photograph to make up for it” [MTP].
March 10 Sunday – Franklin and Harriet Whitmore ended their three-day visit at 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y. with Sam [Mar. 12 to Clara].
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