January 21 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Mr. Clemens got into the big grey mobile with Mr. Clinton at 12 o’clock and away they went for luncheon. The day is very lovely—just the sort for motoring, for we’re having a warm wave, too warm but good for motoring.

Mr. Clemens is relishing the prospect of his speech tomorrow evening, Tuskegee. He said this morning when I came back from Miss Hobby’s boarding house where I had taken the manuscript for her to type; “I am promising my self a good time tomorrow night. It’s a devilish speech, full of hypocrisy and sin, I wouldn’t miss it for anything” [MTP TS 15-16].