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 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
March 22 Thursday – At 21 Fifth Ave, Isabel V. Lyon wrote notes for Sam to answer Elisabeth Cutting. “Mar 22—Think out a date for Reception. The Spanish girl Senorita Marcial will be here about Apr. 2. Would they like to invite Sen Marcial & her chaperon Miss Sanborn to this recep.” [Lyon:] “Mention this as M . Clemens would like to help her along in her work—in any way that comes along” [MTP].
Lyon also wrote the notes to reply to Moses Allen Starr’s Mar. 21 (the answer was sent at John Larkin’s suggestion by Isabel V. Lyon)
March 22 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote an introductory note for Frederick Upham Adams (representing Harper’s) to Dr. John S. Billings. The introduction was “upon library business” [MTP].
March 22 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Betsy, the King and I drove up to Prospect to hear the band play. We sat on a cab rug under the trees and watched that colony of red coated players with its graceful leader, and we watched the little children who were enraptured by the music, and who gamboled around through “the forest of legs” (Betsy) and tumbled over the dogs and were so very, very happy. They were great human beings in little, and showed openly the characteristics that their elders were concealing under stolid masks.
March 22 Monday — In Redding, Conn. Sam replied to the Mar. 19 from John H. Johnston. “Messages like yours can never lose their value” [MTP: Swann Galleries catalog May 2, 1957, No. 468, Item 317]. °
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 22-26 Monday – During this period Sam replied to Maude Clement Rice in Sawnee on Delaware, Penn.: “I am glad to have a copy of that letter, & shall also be very glad to sign the photograph—” [MTP]. Note: incoming not extant; possibly a relative of old “Unreliable,” Clement Rice?
March 23 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Yesterday the King, Mr. Rogers and I drove over to call on Sir Bronlow Grey’s elderly daughters who have never been off these islands. He was attorney general here and in those old days he would not let them leave, and now they are afraid to venture, I believe.
March 23 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
March 23 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam replied to Kate W. Barrett (incoming not extant):
March 23 Saturday – Fatout lists Sam giving a Pilgrim’s dinner speech at the Ambassador James Bryce Dinner, Waldorf-Astoria, N.Y.C. [MT Speaking 676]. Particulars below:
The New York Sun, Mar. 24, p.4, “Bryce Guest of Pilgrims” reported the event but does not mention any speech by Mark Twain. In part (with all mentions of Mark Twain):
BRYCE GUEST OF PILGRIMS.
GREETINGS AT DINNER TO THE
BRITISH AMBASSADOR.
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March 23 Tuesday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote an advertisement to the public for the Redding Times. Under a photo of Stormfield, Sam wrote, ‘“Mr. Sunderland built my house, & I can recommend him in the strongest terms, as a builder, to any who may need his services. / Mark Twain” [MTP]. Note: see prior entries on the Sunderlands, father & son.
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].
March 24 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
March 24 Saturday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Gertrude Natkin at 138 W. 98 St., N.Y.C.
March 24 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: A lazy recuperative day, I think. I have never been so exhausted as just now. I was telling the King this morning how mother who spends her winters near here changed her boarding house by herself and got into a house of questionable character and he told me of how when Mr. And Mrs. Twichell were in London many years ago, they spent a week in a house of prostitution and would probably be there yet, if some friend hadn’t taken them out [MTP TS 44].
March 24 Tuesday – At the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Frances Nunnally.
Francesca dear, this note will leave here 4 days hence by a slow steamer, & reach you 8 days from now—April 1. We sail April 11th & reach New York April 13 —Tuesday. Miss Lyon & my daughter will then go to Redding, Conn., where we are building a house, & return at the week- end—Saturday, April 18.
March 24 Wednesday — In Redding, Conn, Sam replied to the Mar. 19 of Von Beck Canfield: “Mar 24— / Don’t think I ever put it on paper, but put it in a lecture years ago. He is the Moncoon—Kingman” [MTP] Note: for some reason the MTP dates this as “after 19 March” though Sam clearly dated it Mar. 24.
From the Mark Twain Library Association minutes, meeting at Stormfield:
March 24
March 24 Thursday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Katharine Boland Clemens (Mrs. James Ross Clemens) in Redlands, Calif.
Dear Cousin Katherine:
I am grateful for the prayers of those good nuns, & for yours; they have already answered themselves, in giving me a deep pleasure.
March 25 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr. Duneka says of the Satan letter ‘That it is great[’]. Boy come today with proof. / Count Lewenhaupt began treatment today for Mr. Clemens—$2.00 a treatment. / Mr. Clemens dined with Mr & Mrs. Rogers” [MTP TS 9]
March 25 Monday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Miss Marjorie Bowen (pseud.)
Indeed I shall be more pleased than you can think, to have “The Master of Stair” dedicated to me. It is lovely of you to conceive of this fine compliment for me, & I highly value the impulse that moved you to it. You are a wonderful girl, & I hope there is a long life before you to keep on proving it in. / With the very best wishes …. [MTP]. Note: see Nov. 20, 1906.
March 25 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Bermuda: Mr. and Mrs. Freeman took me for tea at the Women’s Exchange. We sat up on the latticed balcony and watched the darkeys in afternoon toilets, and the other folks go by and then we drove out to Spanish Point and around by the North Shore and to visit some charming rentable vacant houses, and that started me to telling the Freemans about Redding and Lyonesse and they want to go there too.
March 25 Thursday — Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Clara Clemens | New York | [Mar] “ 25 | |
| Miss Ethel Newcomb | " " | " 25 |
Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.