1 It was probably John Hamilton Gourlie, Jr. (1853–1904), who had requested Clemens’s autograph. Gourlie, named after an uncle who was a founder of the Century Club of New York, later wrote General Average (1881), about the laws and customs of the United States and other countries, and by the end of his life was “a recognized authority on insurance matters”(“John H. Gourlie Dead,”New York Times, 21 Feb 1904, 7).