September 4 Tuesday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to daughter Clara in Norfolk, Conn.
I am so glad you like the pictures, dear Ashcat, & will keep them. I like them ever so much. Mr. Paine made 7 negatives in the hope of getting one satisfactory one; & when the samples came back from the developer they were all good. It seemed to me that a progressive thought was traceable thro thru them, & after arranging the series in varying order several times I discovered what it was.
September 4 Wednesday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to William Webster Ellsworth.
September 4 Friday – Frances Nunnally wrote from Brown’s Hotel, London to Sam.
Dear Mr. Clemens,—
September 5 Monday – Odoardo Luchini wrote to Sam, letter not extant but referred to in Sam’s Sept. 22 reply.
September 5 Wednesday – Clemens’ A.D. of this day included: Items from “The Children’s Record Book,” showing their different characteristics [MTP Autodict2].
Frederic Chapin wrote from Oak Park, Ill. to Sam, enclosing Elisabeth Marbury’s Sept. 4 to him. Chapin’s long letter to Sam involved the many details, contracts, etc. regarding dramatizing P&P [MTP].
September 5 Thursday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam wrote to daughter Clara, now at the Hotel Victoria, Boston.
I, also, should have been disappointed dearheart, at your not coming, but that I am aware that there is no occasion to expect you until you arrive. And so while I knew you might come, & was strongly hoping you would, I was not really expecting it. Paine’s conundrum fits you as well as it fits me: “Why is Mr. Clemens’s mind like a time-table?”
“Because it is subject to change without notice.”
September 5 Saturday – Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Harriet Enders Pittsfield, Mass September 5-6
John O. Enders “ “ “ “
John Howells New York City “ “ [Illegible notes]
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 Tuesday – Sam wrote an aphorism to an unidentified person: “We ought not to use our morals week-days, it gets them out of repair for Sunday / Truly Yours / Mark Twain.” Underneath this Clara Clemens offered her own aphorism: “He who finds the serpent loses himself” [MTP: Lion Hart Autographs 2007 NYC Bookfairs]
September 6 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Alone I [illegible word] was driven through the starlight over to the Handasyd Cabots where he & Copeland & Sakaloff & Cummings played for a few people. They are four Kings of tone.
September 6 Friday – In his A.D. of Oct. 5, Sam wrote of having Dorothy Quick this week as a guest.
…we had her delightful society during seven days and nights. She is just eleven years old, and seems to be made of watch-springs and happiness. The child was never still a moment, when she wasn’t asleep, and she lit up this place like the sun. It was a tremendous week, and an uninterruptedly joyful one for us all. After she was gone, and silence and solitude had resumed their sway, we felt as if we had been through a storm in heaven.
September 6 Sunday – Note guestbook for Sept 5-6 above. Sam’s guestbook, as well as IVL TS 63-64:
Name Address Date Remarks
James Ross Clemens M.D. St. Louis, Mo. September 6-8 [Illegible notes]
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 Wednesday – Clara Clemens left N.Y.C. to spend a month or so resting in Connecticut. Sam described this in his Sept. 9 to Susan Crane:
I saw Clara off, day before yesterday, to a rest-cure in Connecticut. She is to shut up 4 or 5 weeks, in bed, without books, without companionship, writing no letters, reading no letters, seeing no one but physician & nurse—a horrid solitude, with grief and memory for company [MTP].
September 7 Thursday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
I want to send you Twichell’s letter, but it is lost—not permanently, I merely can’t find it. I was going to carry it to you when I thought I was going to Fairhaven from Norfolk, & so I must have put it away too carefully. I will find it between now & next time I see you.
I do not get entirely over my lameness, & the gout has never kept up its threatenings so long before. Certainly the righteous do have a rough time of it in this world, I wish I was like Rice.
September 7 Friday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam sent a telegram to Henry Campbell- Bannerman, English Prime Minister.
Congratulations, not condolences. Before 70 we are merely respected, at best, & we have to behave all the time or we lose that asset; but after 70 we are respected, esteemed, admired, revered, & don’t have to behave unless we want to. When I first knew you, one of us was hardly even respected.
September 7 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Dinner at the Deacons, and it was very lovely. I sat between Mr. Deacon and Mr. Condert, the latter is very interesting, and we bored each other to a nicety. But Mr. Deacon always has some good prosy interesting thing to talk about. He was telling me about Vernon Lee, and her extreme plainness and her delightfulness; and about her half brother Mr. Hamilton. He met them in Florence years ago, at a time when Hamilton was a great invalid; so great an invalid that the doctors could do no more for him.
September 7 Monday – James Ross Clemens was a guest at the Redding house [new guestbook]. Also stopping by for a visit were the following Redding neighbors. Sam’s new guestbook:
Name Address Date Remarks
Annie R. Banks ——————————— ———————————
Fannie Sanford Shaw From over September 7 [Fanny]
Emma Shaw Reid on the Ridge
Marshal E. Driggs ——————————— ———————————
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 8 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote instructions for Isabel Lyon to reply to Minnie Maddern Fiske. “Write to M . Fisk. & say it has been suggested that the people in Spain If they together ask that the book be dedicated to the Queen of Spain. It isn’t the least likely that it can be done—but we think that you will not be afraid to try” [MTP].
Lyon wrote again for Sam to George B. Harvey, but this, another attempt to “give him abuse” also unfinished:
HORSES TALE
September 8 Sunday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam wrote his june-bug…bird of paradise aphorism to Dorothy Quick [MTP].
September 8 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “There is a row about the red ms. trunk with Mrs. Paine who insulted the King and Benares and me over the telephone” [MTP: IVL TS 64].
James Ross Clemens ended his visit at the Redding house [new guestbook]. Sam’s guestbook shows another two-day stay by a Member of the Aquarium, or Angelfish.
Name Address Date Remarks
Marjorie S. Breckenridge, M.A. From down the glen. September 6-8