July 21 Saturday – Sam was in NYC. Isabel Lyon’s journal (Dublin, N.H.): “These are such beautiful days. The mountain has brought life to me. Who could have thought within the month there could be an awakening such as mine—an awakening out of black poisoned misery into the meaning of the mountain & the meaning & sacredness of life, whether in solitude or not” [MTP TS 99].

John Crowithin wrote from Blackpool, England to ask where he might get a particular volume that he’d once purchased in 1897 and one he thought was an American edition of Twain’s poetry. He named several poems including, however, Bret Harte’s “Heathen Chinee” [MTP]. Note: years before several poked Clemens by writing about this poem as if it were by him.