Vol 3 Section 0529

1901                                                                            ⁴⁷⁵

 

 

 

Frederick H. Cook for Hospital Saturday & Sunday Assoc. wrote to Sam, praising him for his stand in

 

“Sitting in Darkness”: “I hail you as the Voltaire of America. It is a noble distinction. God bless you and see that you weary not in well-doing in this noblest, sublimest of crusades” [MTB 1133].

 

John Pillsbury wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP].

 

Roderick Smith wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article. He expressed a desire to join Sam’s “Anti-Doughnut party” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Frank Fuller’s friend”

 

Unidentified (“An Old Follower of the Rag; an Old-time Republican; A Class-conscious Socialist”)

 

wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “No ans. Required”

 

 

Sam’s notebook: “Bliss, at 26 Bway, 3 pm. / Publish Adam’s Diary. / Harvey, you don’t advertise. Carry Adam’s Diary along—get it in April No.” [NB 44 TS 5].

 

At 1410 W. 10^th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Channing H. Cook of the Plasmon Co., NYC, asking for “several pounds (in quarter-pound packages)” to be sent to Katharine I. Harrison [MTP].

 

John H. Jewett of Springfield, Mass. wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP]. Note: Jewett also wrote of Sam giving him “an impromptu session from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. some 30 years before in the Holyoke House.

 

Patrick O’Farrell wrote compliments from “an old friend” for Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article.

 

“You will remember me as your old Hartford mail carrier” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote “Ans” on the env.

 

February 5 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Twichell comes, in evening. Riggs, 7.30. 150 Central Park South” [NB 44 TS 5].

 

H. Brown of Quincy, Ill. wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article [MTP].

 

William Augustus Croffut for the Washington (D.C.) Anti-Imperialist League wrote compliments and of the “extreme jubilation” his household was in after reading Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article

 

[MTP].

 

William Hart Ward for The Independent (NY) wrote to criticize an aspect of Sam’s “Sitting in Darkness” article.

 

You yourself know well enough that neither the missionaries in China nor the boards in America would consent for an instant to receive thirteen times the damages, or any damages at all to be spent in anything more than replacing lost property. To represent that they would is an insult on our common sense. I like much that you say extremely, but as to that Ament matter I am afraid that your swallowing capacity indicates a gullible gullet [MTP].

 

Erving Winslow for the Anti- Imperialist League wrote compliments of Twain’s “Sitting in Darkness” article, and asking if the article might be reprinted as a pamphlet for their use [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the

env. “Refer him to Harvey / Request & use Art.”

 

 

 

SLC used mourning border for most letters from Susy’s death on, then from Livy’s death on.