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June 27 Wednesday – In NYC Sam went to see H.H. Rogers but he was in a board meeting; he talked with Katharine I. Harrison. In the evening Miss Lilly Burbank and Miss Mosher were passing by his house and he had a chat with them at the gate [June 28 to Jean Clemens].

Notes: Miss Emily W. Burbank (ca.1869-1934), NY writer and lecturer, and Miss Florence Mosher, had been a pupil of Leschetizky. Both ladies were friends of Clara and Jean Clemens.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: A strange thing happened yesterday. Somewhere behind me I must have left the my loneliness, for as George drove me up the long slope to the house, I was filled with a great sweet sense of coming home and a wonderful peace enwrapped me for the first time this year—here in D.

This afternoon Mr. Paine & I went to the Upper Pasture & we read a bit of his ms. & he made photographs and the talk was steady & full of the interest of life.

He is a wonderful child too—& how many there are in the world [MTP TS 91-92]. Note: Lyon returned from Boston to Dublin while Sam was now in NY. The intimate conversations shared with Paine contrasts with their later animus.

Day By Day Acknowledgment

Mark Twain Day By Day was originally a print reference, meticulously created by David Fears, who has generously made this work available, via the Center for Mark Twain Studies, as a digital edition.   

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