June 17 Saturday – In Dublin, N.H. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to his attorney, John Larkin.

Mr. Clemens directs me to write for him and say that if this month ends without any permission from M . Renwick for work to be begun on the furnaces, why shouldn’t John Howells be put to work on July first on the $2250.00 hot water heating equipment.

M . Clemens suggests that M H. should take reputable experts with him to the house, to first examine & set down the condition of things there, so that he will have proof when the work is finished, that the home has not been damaged.

M . Clemens directs me to ask if it would be a good idea to bring suit against M . Renwick at the same time for from ten to twenty thousand dollars damages for last winter.

M . Weinant & clerk—& M . Renwick were present at the time that M . Renwick promised to do all that was necessary to make the house so comfortable that M . Clemens would wish to occupy it indefinitely. The understanding was that M . Weinant’s clerk was to put down in writing all the various improvements that M . Renwick had promised to make in the house. When M . Clemens went for the written statement, he found only the little slip of paper that he showed to you. M . Weinant’s clerk was an intelligent looking young man, & would be a good witness [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Oh, the purity of these days. Mr. Clemens read a long time this afternoon in the microbe revision. He has cleared away one or two little fogs and it reads very smoothly and connectedly and with ever growing interest. Tonight Mrs. Thayer and Gerald dined here. Mr. Thayer wasn’t well enough to come. We had a nice little dinner and afterward they told anecdotes, but mostly Mr. Clemens did. I had a letter from Santissima too.

Mr. Clemens talked to me this afternoon about the way to train people, men in colleges, to think. Citing the for-and-against the reconstructing of Rome into an empire by Caesar. It is so delightful to hear and to watch him talk [MTP TS 66].