August 7 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

“Training is everything” he said, “The Gospel is right” & if he controls himself now, it is due to the training of his age, his old age. Such a sweet old age it is. Of course, he bursts out sometimes into savage blasphemies. It wouldn’t be he if he didn’t. Early this morning, before 7, I heard a big gutteral God damn from his room & then quietness. Later I learned he was mad at the green shade which had stuck & stuck [MTP TS 103-105]. Note: see the rest of the Aug. 7 entry at the end of Aug. 6.

Clemens’ A.D. this day included: Clemens expresses his gratitude to H.H. Rogers—Describes the man as one of the 3 handsomest men in America [MTP: Autodict2].