Vol 3 Section 0587

June 15 Saturday

June 16 Sunday – Sam’s notebook: “Answered Harper proposition for reduction of 7 ½ cents royalty per vol., declining to accede” [NB 44 TS 12].

June 17 Monday – An unidentified book sent by Frank Fuller arrived at Sam’s N.Y. residence [June 18 to Fuller].

Pratt & Whitney, NY office per C.L. Cornell wrote again to Sam about the

old bill for $1,744.20. “A number of letters have passed between our Hartford office and Mr. Rogers…but Mr. Rogers has not replied to their last letter …dated Apr. 12.” Unable to make an appointment with Rogers, they were again asking Sam to give “the account your personal attention” and would accept his note for the amount payable within six months [MTP].

Insert: Holland House Hotel.

June 18 Tuesday – At 4:50 p.m., Sam waited at the Holland House, an

eleven-story marble hotel at 5^th Ave. and 30^th Street, for H.H. Rogers. Urban H. Broughton, Rogers’ son- in-law, came to advise Sam that Rogers was still in Fairhaven and would not return “for a day or two yet” [June 19 to Rogers].

At 1410 W. 10^th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Frank Fuller.

Your book arrived yesterday & I had a good time with it last night, & enjoyed it. It carried me back 50 years, to a time when I knew that life very well, away out West.

If you know of any nice person who wants to get rich by drawing “signed” ogres for nothing, enclosed is his chance. Maybe Aldrich would like to try the shaky hand of honorable age upon it [MTP].

Note: no mentions of a book by Fuller were found; it may be that this was a book that mentioned Fuller when he was acting governor of Utah as well as Mark Twain; JoDee Benussi suggests one possibility, the 1901 volume The Overland Stage to California: personal reminiscences etc. by Frank Albert Root: both Fuller and Twain are mentioned, Twain having to do with meeting the outlaw Jack Slade. Gribben p. 392 lists one other book sent to Sam by Fuller: Poems by Albert Laighton (1859) which doesn’t fit the bill for a tome that would carry him “back 50 years.”

Sam also wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore enclosing a check to pay the taxes on the Farmington Ave.

house. He closed with the advice that they would “leave for Saranac Friday morning, June 21^st” [MTP].

Sam also inscribed a copy of HF to Frank Willard: “Mr. Frank Willard / with the kindest regards and / best wishes of / The Author. / June 18, 1901” [MTP].

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