July 12 Thursday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote his plans to Isabel V. Lyon in Dublin, N.H.

Checks received & banked.

We sail at 9 a.m. to-morrow, for over-Sunday. [to Fairhaven]

I resume business here on Monday, when Col. Harvey arrives. I shall expect to be here all the week [MTP]. Note: in her July 13 journal entry, Lyon calls this “a note not so big as a post scriptum.”

Isabel Lyon’s journal (Dublin, N.H.): Today came a dear little note from Mr. Clemens saying that with no one to watch the barber he had arisen from the chair with short, short hair—& Mrs. Coe wants a “long haired” photograph of him.

I wonder if he is coming back to us at all. The day before he left, when Mr. Paine made the photographs, he told me that he felt that he must make them on that day, for he had the feeling that Mr. Clemens would stay away. He does not like it here I know. He lives in a world away from here, and this Upton place he finds lonely in the extreme. It is that—the isolation of it casts a shadow, a cold shadow over what ought to be beauties. Even the good, good servants find it very depressing [MTP TS 95]. Note: Sam’s letter of the haircut referred to here is not extant; does not fit the prior letters shown before this date.