May 28 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: All day Mr. Clemens has been working too hard revising his microbe manuscript. This afternoon he was limp—exhausted—and tonight he went early to bed. Jean read aloud to me in Madame Laschovska’s book on Transylvania and I did not play the Beethoven today that I had planned to. / Mollie Ingalls writes many things among them that Walter Griffin has gone to Holland [MTP TS 61]. Emily Laszowska-Gerard. See May 16 entry.

Manning & Brown Co., NYC, manufacturers of “The Celebrated Red Cross Cigars,” wrote to Sam. Planning to make a cigar by the name of “Mark Twain,” the company discovered that another firm in Milwaukee was already making one by that name and claimed the exclusive right to do so. Did Sam have any control over the issue? [MTP].