August 24 Tuesday — In his Lyon-Ashcroft MS Clemens wrote on Aug. 25 of this day:
Paine went down to New York yesterday (which was the 24th of August) to remove my stuff to the Lincoln Deposit, which is in 424 street & handier. In the train, on his way back, he saw Mr. & Mrs. Peck, who have that big place over yonder on top of the ridge, the other side of our valley. Peck said he had seen Miss Lyon drink astonishingly, here at Stormfield; & Mrs. Peck said she had seen her in a Pullman car when she was stupid with liquor, & smelling of it, too. I must be miraculously dull, & miraculously unsuspicious, never to have noticed these things—at the time, Evidently when she was drunk to everybody else, I took it for hysterics—which was Ashcroft’s name for it. If I had known how heavy our liquor bills were, I should have been obliged to suspect Ashcroft or Miss Lyon, one or the other, but I never looked at bills of any kind. Consequently I knew nothing of these liquor-freshets until the expert’s investigation of Miss Lyon’s checks revealed them.
Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Clara | Redding | Aug. 24 | They went down to New York & transferred things from Produce Exchange Safe Dep to Lincoln Safe Dep. |
| Paine | Redding |