Eighth Trip to Bermuda - DBD

January 29 Saturday — Sam finished his Jan. 26 to Elizabeth Wallace.

January 30 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Thomas Lemuel James (1831-1916), prior Postmaster General briefly under Garfield (1881-1882); afterward until his death James was chairman of the board of directors of the Lincoln National Bank, NYC . See also Feb. 15 entry.

Dear General—

Please send me fifty dollars. Send it in silver American quarter pieces. Don’t send old rusty ones. Send bright and white and new ones just out of the mint. I have a special use for them. I enclose a check.

Sincerely yours,

January 31 Monday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam inscribed a copy of “Is Shakespeare Dead?” From My Autobiography to Marion S, Allen (Mrs. William H. Allen). “We ought never to break the Sabbath during a thunderstorm. /Truly Yours /Mark Twain / To / Mrs. William Allen / with the respect, esteem, and affectionate regards of / The Author” [MTP].

Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:

January 5 Wednesday — Sam sailed “unexpectedly” for Bermuda on the Bermudian. Paine did not accompany him; instead his valet, Claude Benchotte [Paine to Quick Jan 17; D. Hoffman 158]. Note: Paine also had written the Allens that Sam would likely make another trip during the winter to Bermuda; Sam, down with a cold on New Year’s Day, planned to leave on this day for Bermuda, so just how “unexpected” the trip was, it may have seemed so to Paine.

January 6 Thursday — Sam was at sea on the Bermudian headed for Bermuda. It would be his last stay there and last 95 days, his longest [D. Hoffman 158].

Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: “Matters are going well. Mrs. Paine & I are sending out the cards, and I shall order two hundred more bought. Already there are over three hundred letters and telegrams and a number came in today—one from Helen Keller, which I enclose to you” [MTP].

January 7 Friday — Sam arrived in Hamilton, Bermuda, where he wrote from the Allen’s Bay House, Pembroke Parish, to Frederick A. Duneka or Frederick T. Leigh at Harper’s.

Dear Duneka 
or The Major: 
Please get for me with good dispatch, & send to me to the above address, these things, to-wit, and charge to me: 
“Old Rose & Silver,” by Myrtle Reed; 
“Their Heart’s Desire” (illustrated by Harrison Fisher;) 
“The Master’s Violin.” hy Myrtle Reed

January 8 Saturday — Amy C. Hayes wrote from Molokai, Hawaii to offer condolences from her and her son, Dr. Homer H. Hayes [MTP].

January 9 Sunday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens:

I am enclosing to you a letter from Clara, received yesterday. It seems to be postmarked the 27th, so it was written before she could have received a letter from you.

She probably received my first letter about Jan 1 and we may expect an answer to it by next steamer. I also am enclosing a letter from Margaret Blackmer and I will put in one or two foreign letters [MTP].

Margaret W. Patterson wrote from Iowa to offer condolences [MTP].

March 10 Thursday — Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens about his bank statement and thanked Sam for his list of checks sent. He wondered if Jean’s estate should be settled and suggested a “Jean Clemens Memorial Library building on the lot Adams donated. Jean passed there every day on her way to the mail and the farm was her joy. She spent eight of her happiest months here in Redding, & she loved it here, and I would like the people to remember her and love her memory” [MTP].

March 11 Friday — Sam went to the Hamilton Hotel, Bermuda to hear the garrison band play. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Collier arrived for a two-week stay in the Islands [Mar. !2 to Clara].

March 12 Saturday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch and Ossip Gabrilowitsch.

March 13 Sunday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Dorothy Quick, who evidently had just been in Bermuda with her mother but had left on a family emergency.

March 16 Wednesday — Elinor Comstock wrote from NYC, trusting that Clemens wouldn’t mind including his name in her list of references for the formation of a new school in NY [MTP].

March 17 Thursday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam began a letter to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. that he finished Mar, 18,

Dear Paine,

March 18 Friday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Mar. 17 to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn. after receiving Paine’s Mar. 12 (not extant).

Yours of March 12th just received.

It will be best for you to make stable arrangements, horses & so forth according to your own jugdement without consulting with Clara in Germany I desire this.

I have crossed out what I wrote about a monthly allowance for Clara. I didn’t know she took so much money with her[.]

March 2 Wednesday — In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

Dear Paine: / We sent you a list of the checks but failed the one we finished with therefore we will rectify this blunder by making a new list & bringing it down to date.

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 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 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 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 Friday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Mar. 24 to daughter Clara, “March 25. The portrait-postcard has just arrived from Geneva, & is very welcome, with its loving word from you, dear. / With heaps of love to you both / Marcus” [MTP].

Sam also wrote per Helen S. Allen to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

Dear Paine,

Mr. Allen has made the corrections in the check book suggested by you and now my book exactly corresponds with the pass book.

March 27 Sunday - Easter —- Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch and Ossip Gabrilowitsch spent the day in Rome, Italy, having arrived there the previous Thursday, Mar. 24. The New York Times reported, p. C3, Apr. 3, dateline Rome Apr. 2, with sub-headline “Mark Twain’s Daughter Has Unsatisfactory Experience and Leaves Town.”

March 28 Monday - In Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote per Helen S. Allen to Albert B. Paine in Redding, Conn.

Dear Paine,

I reenclose the check indorsed.

Enclosed is the small library of 44 volumes which you may buy & send to Mrs,.Allen let the books be sent through Mr. Allen’s agent Depew, and you may prepay all charges if you can manage it.

March 29 Tuesday - Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: “Your news about the pain distresses me, but I am glad you are coming home. The change and the quiet of Stormfield will no doubt be beneficial. I hope Collier will let you be very quiet in N.Y. Edward Loomis whom I saw this morning hopes you will spend a few days with him also.” More discussion about AT&T stock: Paine bought another 100 shares [MTP].

March 31 Thursday - Albert Bigelow Paine wrote from Redding to Clemens: “Here is the March statement. It is a bit more complicated than the others, as I grouped the disbursements, but I guess you'll be able to work it out. Clara & Ossip write that they are afraid we are not getting enough to eat, from the amount of the food bill, but as I weigh about 193 and Katy is approaching 300 I consider their alarm unjustified”