September 20 Thursday – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Isabel V. Lyon in Dublin, N.H. 

Clara & I have just come in from dinner at the Grosvenor, & I am gone to bed.

Day before yesterday I told Mrs. Johnson frankly & in detail our judgment of the Joan play, & she took it in good part.

Yesterday on the yacht I read 10,000 words of the story, & to-day I read 10,000 more—both batches with great admiration & continuous & strong interest.

I sent Philip for 10,000 more & have just received it  [MTP]. Note: Charlotte Teller Johnson.

Sam also wrote a one-line note on a calling card to Charlotte Teller Johnson: “Please send me a lot more of the MS. if you can. / It goes WELL. / SLC” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal (Dublin, N.H.): Jean, 11:30

The seriousness of Jean’s disease is increasing and I am very anxious about her. AB & I took some ms. down under the apple tree—“The Mysterious Stranger”—we took, but we talked instead.

Tonight I took poor little Jean down to a Cotillion at the Club. Mrs. Wm. Cabot gave it & it was very pretty. I had a long talk with Mr. Brush out on the porch. Soon they are going to Italy for the winter, I believe [MTP TS 121].

Poultney Bigelow wrote from “Malden on the Hudson” to Sam, inviting him, Isabel Lyon, and “one of the girls” to come and “spend a month or two in the land of Rip van WINKLE—under the Catskills” [MTP].

September 20 ca. – At 21 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C. Sam wrote on Poultney Bigelow’s Sept. 20 invitation or Isabel Lyon to reply to. “Thank him for all of us & say we are sincerely sorry we are not able to come. SLC” [MTP].