June 15 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Headache (?) not sure.It is summer, supreme summer with heat that glows and glorifies.

Today Mr. Clemens couldn’t write. He’s been tiring himself, and indigestion follows with a brain fog—so he spent most of the day loafing on the porch, reading and smoking [MTP TS 65-66].

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Today Mr. Clemens began to read the Revision of the microbe Story” [MTP TS 21].

Frederick A. Duneka wrote to Sam, having rec’d a letter from Thomas S. Barbour of the Congo Reform Assoc., Boston, about their receipt of “King Leopold’s Soliloquy.” Could they use it without restriction? Was it to be published in any magazine? [MTP].

Esther Singleton wrote from NYC to Sam. She was collecting short stories for a book to be published by Collier & Son. Would he allow her to use “Tom Quartz” and the story of the Old Ram? [MTP].