April 9 Friday - Sam recorded events at Stormfield “‘a day or two” after his Apr. 7 arrival from NY:
As I have said, I reached Stormfield on the 7th of April. Things were buzzing so to speak. Ashcroft came up a day or two later. Meantime I had not happened to see anything of Horace, & was too busy to look into his case. When Ashcroft arrived he paid Horace to date, & I signed the check. He paid him at the old rate—a confession, apparently, that Horace had not been “discharged,” & that Ashcroft knew it.
Yes, things were buzzing. Clara wanted Miss Lyon discharged & sent out of the house at once. I said her first month on the March 15 contract would be compted on the 15th of the current month & I would then give her a month’s notice & let her retire to her own house.
Clara wanted Miss Lyon’s trunks, in the attic, searched for stolen goods. This astonished me! Did she think Miss Lyon that kind of thief? Yes, she thought she was; & believed she had more than merely plausible reasons for it |MTP: L-A MS XII]
Connecticut Institute for the Blind per J. McC. Bellows wrote to solicit “an offering” from Clemens for their continued good work. They wrote that Joseph Twichell would vouch for them, Clemens had been a past contributor and was on an enclosed list [MTP].