September 15 Saturday – Sam left Dublin, N.H. for Fairhaven, Mass. [Sept. 14 to Twichell].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: A dash & a rush all day. I got up to see the King off this morning at 5:45 & as I tied his necktie & flicked some shaving lather from his waistcoat & helped him into his overcoat, he told me the little anecdote about a General at West Point who told the young graduates that nothing must be neglected—if they would be sure that the mule drivers fed the mules they must oversee it themselves, & he spoke to them not as if they were to be lieutenants & colonels—but as Commanders-in-Chief. His eyes shone with a wonderful luster [MTP TS 120].

The New York Times, pg. BR568 in “Topics of the Week” remarked on the first installment of “Mark Twain’s Autobiography” that “if the entire work turns out to be as good as this it will be a masterwork.”

September 15 ca. – In Dublin, N.H., Isabel V. Lyon replied for Sam to Frederic Chapin’s Sept. 12. “Mr. Clemens is now very busy & requests M . Chapin to refer to Miss Marbury in whom M . Clemens has confidence & who has full authority to act for him. M . Clemens is sure that Miss Marbury will conduct everything on a fair basis” [MTP].