June 13 Tuesday – In Dublin, N.H. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Katharine I. Harrison, asking her to transfer $2,000 from the Guaranty Trust to the Lincoln National Bank. She added, “Mr. Clemens is well” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Jean wasn’t well today. She went down to her study, but came back so weary and dazed. Today the Thayers lunched here and Mr. Clemens and Mrs. Thayer talked of the “Quaker City” for a long time. Did Mrs. Thayer know anything about Mrs. Fairbanks?” [MTP TS 65].

Charles J. Langdon wrote to Sam,enclosing a check for $11.01 “being half of a payment by John K. Ford on account of the sale of some land in Steuben County owned jointly by aunt Livy and myself” [MTP].

Joe Twichell wrote from Hartford to Sam, announcing he was “going to Seattle in September to preach the sermon at the Anniversary Meeting there of the American Board” of Foreign Missions. He might mention the Rockefeller gift and would cite Sam’s views on it. He related having a dog nose him during a sermon, which prompted laughter by the children and then by himself. He was to perform a wedding in Norfolk on June 22 and could he stop and see Clara? And where? He also told of Col. Cheney undergoing an operation in San Francisco, and closed with: “I love you, old fellow, in spite of all your bad behavior, very, very dearly” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env: “Can he call & see Clara? This question must be answered. / This letter to be preserved & put on [illegible word] with Auto.”