All this luxury and privacy: “Hillbourne Club.”
All together Twain would be supporting: Information about Jean’s expenses; SLC Holder No. 1 Accountants’ Statements and Schedules Accounts Ashcroft-Lyon Affair March 1907 to February 28, 1909, MTP.
By comparison, the mean daily pay: Brad Hansen, “The Golden Age of Flexible Wages in the Old Dominion: Labor Market Adjustment in Virginia During the Panic of 1907,” www.eh.net/Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_97/Hansen.shtml.
Dr. Edward A. Sharp: Christina Rae, personal correspondence.
After their tour: October 22, 1906, JC Diary September 12–November 30, 1906, 53350 HL.
Jean was delayed by a day: “Of course my breakfast, all of it came up—even before I had finished eating it. That was proof positive of what was to follow. The attack didn’t come on as promptly as the last one, but it came during the forenoon, while the second one was quite late in the afternoon. For some time I thought that I should be well enough to go out to Katonah on the three o’clock train, but that was a mistaken idea, as I was ill all day long & even after the second attack.” October 24, 1906; JC Diary September 12–November 30, 1906, HL.
“It was desperately hard”: October 25, 1906, JC Diary September 12–November 30, 1906, HL.
“heart stretching to have her so”: October 25, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
Encouraged by Clara’s visit: “[Clara] brought me a lovely bunch of pink carnations.” October 27, 1906, JC Diary September 12–November 30, 1906, HL.
“I began this morning”: October 28, 1906, JC Diary September 12–November 30, 1906, HL.
“Today nothing of importance has occurred”: December 1, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
Lard was feared: December 1, 1906 and January 19, 1907, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
“my own stubbornness and unwillingness”: December 8–9, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
He did, however, want to hear back: December 9, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, 53351 HL.
“I dreamed last night of Dr. Sharp”: December 16, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
“a pretty violent injection”: December 17, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
“I had often felt”: January 14, 1907, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
Rebelling against all the restrictions: January 9, 16, 26, 1907, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
patients were only allowed to eat: December 25–27, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
Patients could go boating: Boating on the reservoir was very popular; by 1907 there were six hundred boats “used on ‘the Lake.’” Duncombe, Katonah, p. 235.
“Of course, the minute I had done it”: December 20, 1906, JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, 53351 HL.
To her joy, Scott soon appeared: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 167.
Jean had her driver: Karen Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), p. 97.
To that end, Hillbourne: “Hillbourne Club.”
“a professional member”: JC Diary December 1, 1906–February 28, 1907, HL.
In June he wrote Clara: June 9, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“prodigious piece of work”: June 15, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“He is often animated”: June 25, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“It is only by means of fertilization”: July 8, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
After Miss Doty’s huffy departure: October 22, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“repeated the gossip”: October 22, 1907; undated entry, Notebook #2, MTP.
“gave what I dared”: October 24, 1907, fragment in the 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“an adventurer & planning to marry”: May 22, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I’ll get even with you”: May 22, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP; SW, a sheet of paper attached to July 25, 1907, entry, Webster Manuscript, MTP.
“at this base of action”: October 27, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“so glad—So selfishly glad”: October 31, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
He explained to Jean: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 157.
“not go away from him again”: December 12, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“Editor and Executor”: Loose page, 1906–07 Box, VC.
Now, in addition to acting: December 13, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
Of course, Paine’s decision to move out: February 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“that isn’t the place for AB.”: December 25, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
“full authority over all literary remains”: January 14, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Oh King—you are so wonderful”: Undated entry, Notebook #2, MTP.
“completed the only work”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 164.
She apparently found Twain’s monetary interest: January 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“baked beans & bacon”: January 4, 1906, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Of course there couldn’t ever be anybody”: January 4, 1907, Notebook #5, MTP.
Isabel played the enthusiastic audience: “He makes such a pretty bridge of his hand, which is so beautiful & in his white silk coats which we had made at Vantine’s.” January 13, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“The secretary can do anything”: January 13, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“missed so much”: January 16, 1907, Notebook #2, MTP.
For his enjoyment: January 14, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“When I go to his room to tell him”: February 26, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“earthquake dream”: Undated entry, Notebook #2, MTP.
“It was that remark”: January 21, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“98 years ten months”: January 23, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Twain received Fletcher’s savvy instruction: January 26, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“She is a made over creature with happiness”: March 26, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“learning her trade”: March 28, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
After a second lightning-quick visit with Isabel: March 5, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Here am I missing”: April 12, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I had reached the grandpapa state of life”: April 17, 1908; Mark Twain’s Autobiographical Dictations, MTP.
“Y.M.C.A. men”: March 4, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1, MTP.
She was equally pleased: August 5, August 7, and August 9, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“too splendid”: May 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“He is in love with Tuxedo”: May 30, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Mr. Clemens is carried away”: May 29, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“silk underclothes”: June 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“POWER OF ATTORNEY”: SLC, May 7, 1907, Box 48, “Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript,” MTP.
Isabel’s lot improved: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 172.
“It is going to be a Strange Summer”: June 19, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“the King would be”: July 1, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I have not known”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 173.
“decided to go home”: July 6, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I’ll get even with you”: May 22, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP; SW, a sheet of paper attached to July 25, 1907, entry, Webster Manuscript, MTP.
Years later, Isabel told Samuel and Doris Webster: DW and SW to Henry Nash Smith, July 1, 1960, MTP.
Ironically, a little over a week before: May 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Colonel Harvey is
the mensch to go”: May 3, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“It was a blow to Paine”: DW to Betty [Hall] Mack [Mrs. Clifford G.], July 29, 1959, MTM.
“lying weak and sick”: June 8, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“thoughtless things”: June 21, 1907, fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“remember the proprieties”: June 22, 1907, fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“TRY NOT TO BE JEALOUS : June 26, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Standing at the end of the pier: July 22, 1907; fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“more yet from that devil”: July 25, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“the ‘protection’ of it”: July 26, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“very tiny drive”: July 30, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“It was Sweet to drive”: August 25, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“he was very Sweet”: January 3, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“until the one hundred thousand words”: January 20, 1907, fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“they poured in”: May 23, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“the loss would be”: August 5, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Twain, on the other hand: October 14, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“The King’s interest in children”: February 8, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“savagely ill”: August 30, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“neuritis in my left neck”: June 24, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Phenacetin: In 1983, phenacetin was removed from usage due to its link to kidney failure. Http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Phenacetine.
“entire dissatisfaction in my condition”: August 30, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“hopped out of bed”: January 4, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“feel that he wants”: January 7, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
She returned to Redding: June 21, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
An alarmed John Howells: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 182.
Clara’s demands: Ibid., p. 202; Rasmussen, Mark Twain A–Z, p. 445.
She had initially opposed: Lystra, Dangerous Intimacy, p. 78.
“full of plans for the future home”: March 25, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
She commented bitterly: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 168.
to the editor : March 14, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“the task of providing enough innocence”: Mary Louise Howden, “Mark Twain as His Secretary at Stormfield Remembers Him; Anecdotes of the Author Untold Until Now,” New York Herald, December 13, 1925, section 7, pp. 1–4.
She christened the residence Stormfield: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 205.
The revenue from “Extract”: Ibid., p. 190.
Twain acquiesced: Rasmussen, Mark Twain A–Z, pp. 445–46.
“She could do what she like[d]”: Webster Interview, 1953, VC.
“Poor prisoner”: June 13, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“filled with happiness over it”: April 24, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“triple windows”: September 12, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
A wing was added for a new kitchen: Webster Interview, 1953, VC. 146 The farmhouse also boasted: April 24, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Lyonesse: Lyonesse was also referred to as the Lobster Pot and Summer-field by the Clemenses, Isabel, and friends.
“‘the magic land’”: June 21, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
In the end, the King slays his enemy:
Then rose the King and moved his host by night
And ever pushed Sir Mordred, league by league,
Back to the sunset bound of Lyonesse—
A land of old upheaven from the abyss
By fire, to sink into the abyss again;
Where fragments of forgotten peoples dwelt,
And the long mountains ended in a coast
Of ever-shifting sand, and far away
The phantom circle of a moaning sea.
“Santa misunderstood all my efforts”: May 2, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Her new purchasing power: June 23, 1903, 1903 Daily Reminder, VC.
“leisured, urban women”: Elaine S. Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 6; “shopping” in the nineteenth century had become “linked in the public mind with pleasure and personal freedom.”
“wonderful place on 15th Street”: April 27, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“to look at rugs”: June 10 and September 12, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“Miss Lyon is working very hard”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 203.
The first-floor billiard room: November 24, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
Indeed, Stormfield was a grand space: Much more information about Stormfield, along with photographs, can be found in Kevin Mac Donnell’s article “Stormfield: A Virtual Tour,” Mark Twain Journal 44, no. 1/2 (Spring/Fall 2006).
In 1908, 90 percent: Jim Rasenberger, America, 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation (New York: Scribner, 2007), p. 76.
When Twain took up residence: John Cooley, Mark Twain’s Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens Angelfish Correspondence 1905–1910 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991), p. 175.
“I shan’t ever be able”: June 25, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“the thought of ever going back”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 205.
Twain had ended his lease: “New York Loses Mark Twain,” New York Times, September 8, 1908.
“packing & clearing out”: September 29, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“The burden of this house”: September 3, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I wish he wouldn’t talk quite so often”: Undated entry, 1908, loose page, 1908–09 Box, VC.
“every time I try to arrange”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, 145.
“The King talks so much about his death”: January 14, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“track of the hours of the day”: September 28, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder; January 4, 1907, Notebook #5; August 6, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
On multiple occasions: November 2, 1906, 1906 Daily Reminder #1; January 4, 1907, Notebook #5; March 20, 1907, fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
During a long celebratory evening: Twain joined the Lotos Club in 1873, just three years after it was founded. It was the first New York club he joined and is one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States.
“pale as death”: March 6, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
funeral procession: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 175.
“architect of his own reputation”: Budd, Our Mark Twain, p. 19.
“An autobiography is the truest”: March 14, 1904, MTP.
“He was cross”: January 26, 1908, 1908 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I have no desire”: January 28, 1909, MTP.
The horrific episode: “Editor Moffett Dies, Struggling in Surf,” New York Times, August 2, 1908.
“some days I feel”: August 17, 1908, MTM.
THREE: “ANOTHER STRIPPED & FORLORN KING LEAR”
“atmosphere of adulation”: Budd, Our Mark Twain, p. 158.
“broken my bow”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 115.
“he didn’t get much good”: August 2, 1907 [dated September 1, 1907], 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I have just come to the conclusion”: “Twain’s Daughter Talks About Him,” New York Times, June 14, 1908.
Myron W. Whitney, Jr.: At the height of his career, Whitney was internationally renowned for his beautiful bass voice. At the time of this concert, he was seventy-two years old. “Concerts of the Week,” New York Times, November 10, 1907. For more on W
hitney see http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/sketch.html.
“Mr. Wark and his honest blue eyes”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 171.
Will was Canadian: 1881 Canadian Census Household Record; Family Search, International Genealogical Index, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Enormous homes were constructed: Marsha Ann Tate, “Presentation Given at the Cobourg & District Historical Society’s 25th Annual Dinner,” College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, May 24, 2005.
The contrast between: Will’s father was Irish and worked as the caretaker of Victoria Hall (Cobourg’s Town Hall). Canadian Census Household Records.
Two years after: Census Dansville Township, Livingston County, New York, Supervisor District 8, ENU 141, enumerator: Frederick B. Maloney. The Jackson Sanatorium offered hydropathic treatments (including cold-water baths, wraps, and sprays), and endorsed a vegetarian diet while forbidding sugar, coffee, tea, alcohol, and tobacco.
In March 1907, Isabel expressed: March 29, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“a long thin black gown”: June 1, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“every night”: June 28, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“I have been dreaming”: June 22, 1907, fragment in the 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“is beautifuller”: August 29, 1907, 1907 Daily Reminder, MTP.
“could hear Clara’s voice”: Charles Wark to SLC, August 13, 1907, HL.
During the early months: March 6, 1908.
“the fourth letter of credit”: Hill, Mark Twain: God’s Fool, p. 200.
“very soon”: Ibid., p. 205.
“on shares so that Clara”: Charles Wark to IL, June 24, 1908; IVL Material Drawer #8, MTP.
“He understands perfectly”: Oneonta Star, August 3, 1918.
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