July 6 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam replied to Elizabeth Jordan. “I am here for a day, & your note of July 2 has just reached me. I shall be eager to get those first chapters, & shall hope they will inspire me to do the boy” [MTP]. Note: Jordan was ramrodding a collaborative story for Harper’s Bazaar. Clemens was chosen to do the boy chapter. Sam ultimately could not interest his pen in the story.

Isabel Lyon’s journal (in Dublin, N.H.):

Today after Gerald Thayer & Jean started for a walk to Thorndyke Pond I went to the upper pasture, but I was too full of sadness to remain there. Perhaps not all sadness but moodiness. These solitary walks are very good though, for they give a chance to think things out—just as ABP [Paine] says. I had been thinking about moral courage & trying to sift it down, and at dinner we were talking about it. To me it seems to be repression of self. G. said it was a “repression of pity” too, & he’s right. Then he said I’d better read Neitzche’s “Also Sprach Garathustra”, he recommended. Gerald had his copy with him on ship coming up from Dominica & someone—probably a negro servant—took it—& all his advertising for it did not bring it back [MTP TS 93].