May -— Sam noted in his after Sept. 25, 1909 letter that during this month, “Discovery of evidence proving Lioness a thief,” referring to Isabel Lyon.
Isaac H. Platt sent his book, Bacon Cryptograms in Shake-speare, and Other Studies (1905) and inscribed it to Clemens: “As a slight token of appreciation and admiration of Mark Twain's knock-down to the old impostor William Shaxpur, the perpetraior of this feeble effort to the same end (an ill favored thing but his own) begs its acceptance and—if he may dare hope it—its perusal by the mightier champion. / To Samuel L. Clemens Esq. /with the compliments of / Isaac Hull Platt, / Challingford, Pennsylvania, / May 190 ” [Gribben 549].
Harper's Monthly for May included Archibald Henderson’s article “Mark Twain,” p, 948-55. Tenney: “Praises MT’s robustly national qualities, although ‘he is America’s greatest cosmopolitan.’ “But, after all, Mark Twain’s supremest title to distinction as a great writer inheres in his mastery in that greatest sphere of thought, embracing religion, philosophy, morality, and even humor, which we call sociology’” [47].
Harper's Monthly for May also included Albert Bigelow Paine’s “Mark Twain at Stormfield: The House of Many Beatitudes” p. 955-59. Tenney: “On MT’s home at Redding, Connecticut, and his life there” [48].