October 16 Monday – Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Ambrose Lee, acknowledging his letter of Oct. 13. Lyon’s response is not extant but is referred to in Lee’s Oct. 18 to Sam [MTP].

Clemens also wrote to the Congo Reform Assoc. in Boston, the letter not extant but referred to in Tyler’s Oct. 17 reply.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Last week the Danish sculptor Borgeum [sic Borglum] broke into splinters 2 angels he had been at work upon for the Cathedral (St. John the Divine) because the clergy didn’t like the idea of having them represented as female figures, angels haven’t sex— but one was the angel of the Aunnunciation and commenting upon the necessity of sex in this case Mr. Clemens observed as per this slip of pinned on paper—as he lay curled up on the couch. “The angel of annunciation came on rather delicate business when he had to announce to a young lady that she was going to have trouble. Why should such a commission be put into the hands of a Buck angel?”

Mr. [Henry] Allison came up to photograph Mr. Clemens, who didn’t feel well enough to have more than one or 2 taken. He dined with the Thayers yesterday, ate pumpkin pie which gave him wretched indigestion [MTP TS 107-108]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr Allison…has arranged with Mrs. Upton about the electric lighting on the house” [MTP TS 31]. Note: (John) Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (1867–1941), Danish-American artist and sculptor, famous for creating the heads at Mt. Rushmore and Stone Mountain near Atlanta.