The Clemens family departed Saranac Lake September the 19th and traveled to Elmira. On the 26th, they relocated to the Grosvenor Hotel in New York City. October 1 Tuesday – The Clemenses took possession of the Appleton house at Riverdale-on-the-Hudson
September 20 Friday – The Clemens family was in Elmira, likely at Quarry Farm. No letters describing their visit with Sue Crane and Charles J. Langdon are extant.
September 21 Saturday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
September 22 Sunday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
Sam wrote to C.F. Moberly Bell, acknowledging with gratitude his sending Dr. George Ernest Morrison’s (1862 -1920) book, likely: An Australian in China (1895). Morrison was a correspondent for the London Times in Peking [MTP]. Note: see Gribben’s listing on Morrison, p. 487.
September 23 Monday – The Clemens family was in Elmira.
September 24 Tuesday – The Clemens family was in Elmira, likely at Quarry Farm. Sam wrote to
H.H Rogers:
We shall reach town Thursday Evening—Grosvenor hotel.
If you get the umbrella, don’t send it there, let the Guaranty Trust take care of it for a day or two—get a check for it.
September 25 Wednesday – In Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
The trouble with Tom Reed is that he don’t belong to no church & ain’t got no sympathy with suffering. How much would they allow us on an umbrella-display at the Pan-American?
You can have half [MTHHR 473]. Note: a continuation of the “missing umbrella” in-joke.
September 26 Thursday – The Clemens family left Elmira and returned to New York, where, at the Grosvenor Hotel, N.Y. at midnight, Sam wrote a postcard to H.H. Rogers.
“Langdon hopes to be able to come. “Yesterday evening I wrote & invited Twichell. / SLC / I’m coming” [MTHHR 474].
Note: Sam and H.H. Rogers were planning to witness the third of three races in the America’s Cup Sept. 28 to Oct. 4. from Kanawha. See Joe’s answer, Sept. 27 entry.
September 27 Friday – Joe Twichell wrote to Sam, answering his invitation to join the cruise to view the “No. 3” boat race:
September 29 Sunday – At the Grosvenor Hotel, N.Y. Sam wrote (on the margins of Twichell’s Sept. 27 letter) to H.H. Rogers: “Dear Mr. Rogers: I shall try to get in, tomorrow or Tuesday & telegraph Twichell what day to come, & what hour in the morning, & whether at West 35th st, or where” [MTHHR 474-5]. Note: this about viewing the America’s Cup third heat on Oct. 4.
Sam also wrote to Joe Twichell.