February 12 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:
The dictating began again this morning after two days of rest. This evening Mr. Clemens was saying that Mr. Paine and Miss Hobby make a good audience, and quite enough too. Mr. Paine came in while Jean and I were at tea, so he joined us. He came to inquire some facts about Mr. Clemens’s fountain pen, for it is such a good one. (The Conklin Pen). The sitting for the portrait bores Mr. Clemens; perhaps because he feels that it is not going to be very good and then it is at a bad time in the day too, but any time would be bad with that artist.
As we came up stairs for the night Mr. Clemens gave me the last budget of typewritten ms. It is very beautiful, for just now he is talking about Susie Clemens and her “autobiography of my father,” and he has begun to use parts of it for the autobiography [MTP TS 29].
Clemens’ A.D. for this day: Susy’s Biography continued—Some of the tricks played in “Tom Sawyer”—The broken sugar-bowl— Skating on the Mississippi with Tom Nash, etc. [AMT 1: 350-354].
Mary E. Joyce wrote from NYC in behalf of a club of fifteen crippled boys, to whom she was reading TS. She wanted to find pins or buttons with Twain’s picture to give to the boys [MTP]. Note: on the mourning-bordered note from Joyce, Lyon wrote, “Mr. Clemens applied to R.W. Ashcroft who knows where the little badges can be made.” See Mar. 17 entry.
The dictating began again this morning after two days of rest. This evening Mr. Clemens was saying that Mr. Paine and Miss Hobby make a good audience, and quite enough too. Mr. Paine came in while Jean and I were at tea, so he joined us. He came to inquire some facts about Mr. Clemens’s fountain pen, for it is such a good one. (The Conklin Pen). The sitting for the portrait bores Mr. Clemens; perhaps because he feels that it is not going to be very good and then it is at a bad time in the day too, but any time would be bad with that artist.
As we came up stairs for the night Mr. Clemens gave me the last budget of typewritten ms. It is very beautiful, for just now he is talking about Susie Clemens and her “autobiography of my father,” and he has begun to use parts of it for the autobiography [MTP TS 29].
Clemens’ A.D. for this day: Susy’s Biography continued—Some of the tricks played in “Tom Sawyer”—The broken sugar-bowl— Skating on the Mississippi with Tom Nash, etc. [AMT 1: 350-354].
Mary E. Joyce wrote from NYC in behalf of a club of fifteen crippled boys, to whom she was reading TS. She wanted to find pins or buttons with Twain’s picture to give to the boys [MTP]. Note: on the mourning-bordered note from Joyce, Lyon wrote, “Mr. Clemens applied to R.W. Ashcroft who knows where the little badges can be made.” See Mar. 17 entry.
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