September 29 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

I have had to ask Mr. Clemens to come back on Monday.

Today a climax with Jean. In the King’s name I had to forbid Gerry Brush going with her for a long walk & then I collapsed. Jean would not listen to reason. She was far too ill to go. Gerry stayed here all the day & in the afternoon when AB came out & came up to my room—the room which was so hideous to me in May—only because I had nothing but griefs to bring into it—we went over a lot of the King’s mail & then, he sitting beside my couch, we had a wonderful talk.

Gerald Thayer came over at 5 o’clock at Dr. Stowell’s suggestion & will stay indefinitely. Because in Jean’s present condition it isn’t safe for me to be alone with her. She could easily lapse into the violence the doctors fear may come in time. They all came up to my room after tea—Gerald, & Gerry & Jean—AB was here, & we had such a gay time, for Gerry recited nonsense verse [MTP TS 123-124].

The New York Times, p. BR602, under “Topics of the Week” commented on the second segment of “Mark Twain’s Autobiography” in the Oct. issue of North American Review. “It was no masterwork like ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ but it was full of fresh, original humor.”

The St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat ran a three-page feature, “A Day With Mark Twain,” by Albert Edward Allman. Five photographs were included with a description of how Twain passed his day.