June 25 Sunday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Frederick A. Duneka.

I hear & comply. The easiest way for me to furnish the details you ask for, was to answer your letter with another one, & I have done that. It is handy for you, too; for you can at your pleasure talk the details to any journalists that come to you, or print my letter on slips & hand them to as many of the boys as will accept, informing them that you asked me about my summer & my industries & if I have acquired a house here for next summer, & so on, & this letter is my reply —& as it covers everything it will save both you & them time & labor if they will take it & print part of it or the whole of it, just as they please. Maybe Melville Stone might get something out of it for the A.P. If I can further help the boom in any way, command me freely.

Sincerely Yours / SLC

I tell you, a jury to read to is a good scheme. In two places I felt a wince—I didn’t see it, I wasn’t looking. I struck those two places out. But for the wince I should not have discovered that the emendations were needed [MTP]. Note: MTP dates “ca. June 25” but the letter is headed “Sunday”.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Half my life ago, I read the Cenci. I wonder who reads it now? And how terrible, how very terrible it is.

Jean goes up stairs here at 7:20 and finds her father lying on the bed with his shoes and stockings off and a jager blanket over his stomach. She scolds, and he chuckles. Oh, his chuckles. Tonight he talked again, for he had started Jean at dinner when he said Patriotism is a Passion, not a Principle. Religion is a Principle—(but I’ve made notes elsewhere). He went up stairs at 9:30. But he had lost his pen, so I flew up with a full one; he sat up in his bed like the white, white king that he always looks, he hadn’t any idea of his beauty, for he cannot see himself—and if he could, I wonder if he’d suspect the beauty [MTP TS 69-70]. Note: The Cenci, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1819) a verse drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, inspired by an Italian family