Eighth Trip to Bermuda - DBD

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].

February 3 Thursday — At the Bay House in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. Written to Paine just two months before Twain’s death, this note, in its black-bordered envelope (in mourning for Twain's daughter) concludes, as if in fun, with the words, I’ve got some more to say, but my secretary is busy & I am lazy” [MTP; Paraphrase: Dawson’s Bookshop catalogs, No. 150, Dec. 1940, Item 138].

February 4 Friday — At the Bay House in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Andrew Carnegie.

Dear St. Andrew:

This will introduce & endorse to you Mr. Morgan; & as this is the first time I have ever given anyone a letter of introduction to you out of 150 applications, “dying I salute you!” and urgently beg you to let him talk to you on a matter which is not trivial but is of very high importance to our country & to its loftiest interests.

February 5 Saturday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam inscribed his photograph to an unidentified woman: “To Etheldoralinda, from her principal best friend” [MTP]. Note: The playfulness of the name used by Sam infers a young lady.

Sam also began a letter to Albert B. Paine that he finished Feb. 7.

Dear Paine:

Your preliminary report is very fine.

Under “Salaries” it lacks one item, not yet payable: Stanchfield, which is about $80 a month.

February 6 Sunday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:

February 7 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Feb. 5 to Albert Bigelow Paine in Redding, Conn.

Monday, Feb. 7. Yesterday Mr. Allen took us on an excursion in Mr. Hamilton’s big motor boat. Present, Mrs, Allen, Mr. and Mrs. & Miss Sloan, Helen, Mildred Howells, Claude, & me. Several hours’ swift skimming over ravishing blue seas under a brilliant sun; also a couple of hours of picknicking & lazying under the cedars in a secluded place.

February 9 Wednesday — W.T. Whaley wrote in a child’s hand from Waxahachie, Texas to offer condolences and ask for a photograph [MTP].

January 10 Monday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:

January 11 Tuesday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in West Redding, Conn,

January 12 Wednesday — Mr. & Mrs. A.S. Kelley from Palmyra, Mo. wrote condolences [MTP].

January 14 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in West Redding, Conn.

For the Bazar

WHO?

Who loves to steal a while away 
From sinful joys & foolish play 
And fold her holy hands & pray? 
The Bitch. 
Who loves to watch while others pray, 
And hog their assets, night & day, 
Wherewith to fat her Ashcroft—say? 
The Bitch, 
(To be continued.) 
[verso:]

January 15 Saturday — Mrs. W.F. Forbush wrote from Cannon Station, Conn. to offer some treatment for Sam’s indigestion [MTP].

January 17 Monday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to the New York Telephone Co. requesting telephone books. His letter is not extant but referred to in the Company’s Jan. 20 reply; since Paine wrote the below for Clemens, it’s probable he also wrote this letter [MTP].

Albert B. Paine wrote for Sam to Mrs. Emma Gertrude Quick.

January 18 Tuesday — William Dean Howells wrote from NYC to Sam.

Dear Clemens: / While your wonderful words are warm in my mind yet, I want to tell you what you know already; that you never wrote anything greater, finer, than that turning-point paper of yours.

I shall feel it honor enough if they put on my tombstone, "He was born in the same Century and general Section of middle western Country with Dr. S. L. Clemens, Oxon., and had his Degree three years before him through a mistake of the University.”

January 19 Wednesday — Ragnvald Blix wrote on Simplicissimus notepaper from Munich, Germany:

I have just received the St. Sebastian [drawing] from my exhibition in Christiana and a friend of me, who goes to New York in some days, takes the drawing with him (I have heard that the luggage of drawings in America is very detailed and troublesome)

I hope, that the Sebastian is welcome in Stormfield? [MTP].

January 20 Thursday - W.H. Howe for H.H. Laboratory, Moorefield, Ky. wrote to ask for an autograph, after having visited Florida, Mo. and viewing the house where his aunt Polly said Clemens was born [MTP].

New York Telephone Co. per F.B. Ellis wrote to Sam: “I have your favor of January 17th, and wish to advise that 2 copies of the New York Telephone Directory issue of October 14th, 1909 have been sent to you by Adam’s express to-day” [MTP].

Dora Prentice Wills wrote from Holmesburg, Phila. to Sam.

January 21 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

Dear Paine,—Thanks for your letter, and for its contenting news of the situation in that foreign and far-off and vaguely-remembered country where you and Loomis and Lark and other beloved friends are.

I have Letter from Clara this morning. She is solicitous, and wants me well and watchfully taken care of. My, she ought to see Helen and her parents and Claude administer that trust!

January 24 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

Dear Paine:

Can you get this note to Mr. Moroso for me?

And will you send the poem to Clara when you write her?

January 25 Tuesday

January 25? Tuesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote on the Jan. 20 letter from Dora Prentice Wills to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.: “Paine, write her one of your darlingest letters for me. SLC / Paine, Claude does not want his money. He will cash the check, but don’t send any more. SLC” [MTP].

January 26 Wednesday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Margaret Blackmer in Greenwich, Conn.

Dear Margaret— / So you have reached Rosemary Hall at last. I know it must be recently, or you would have run up to see me at Stormfield.

I suppose I shant see Stormfield again very soon, I have no sorrowful associations with Bermuda, so I expect to spend a good deal of my time here in future, I am not in any hurry to go back to America.

January 27 Thursday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

January 28 Friday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:

I will forward our letter to the Poet Moroso. It will gratify him very much—more than any money payment he could receive, I am sure.

I am enclosing you an interesting batch best of all a letter from Clara, written eleven days ago. Perhaps she has one on the way to you, too—of course she has—but you will be glad to see this, no doubt. I’d like to have it again, by and by,