August 17 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Today came such a drowsy little note from the King to say that the dictating is a burden to him, & so he is flying away down to Fairhaven & pretty Mrs. Harry Rogers, & the yacht, & he is so glad to have the holiday. Dublin is become an impossible place for him to live in” [MTP TS 108].

Harper & Brothers wrote to Isabel Lyon asking where they might find “when the following articles first appeared,” as they needed the information for copyright: “The Invalid’s Story”; “The Captain’s Story”; “In Memoriam”; Moffet’s sketch of Mark Twain, etc. “We purpose taking Vol. 24 Hillcrest—the new volume—and add all these articles in a trade volume so that both Hillcrest and Trade Editions shall be complete and uniform as to contents” [MTP].

August 17 ca. – In Dublin, N.H. Isabel Lyon answered Harper’s Aug. 17 inquiry: “Mr. Clemens thinks these copyrights are certainly dead. / P.B.P.—Pub by Slote & Woodman… Captain’s Possibly do” [MTP].