November 17 Saturday – Roi Cooper Megrue wrote to Isabel Lyon enclosing Ernest Hendrie’s reply to Elisabeth Marbury’s Oct. 29 about dramatization rights for “The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg.” Lyon wrote on Megrue’s letter sometime after Nov. 17:

Katherine telephoned

M . Timory can have the right to dramatize The Interviewer M . Hendrie be may be right, but r M . Clemens doesn’t remember. wrote Mr. Hendrie—Mr.H needn’t be surprised that M . Clemens has forgotten, for he always forgets everything of that nature.

Note: Sam wrote a note on the letter to Lyon: “Mr. Megrue sent this to me. Please tell Katherine if you remember about it?” [MTP]. Note: Gabriel Timmory (pseud. René Wahl; 1870-1965), dramatist and journalist. .

Isabel Lyon’s journal noted she was ill each day, from Nov. 17 to Nov. 23, either by “Still ill” or simply “Ill” [MTP TS 147].

Christian L. Pearce sent Sam an engraved invitation to the marriage of their daughter Maria Christine  Pearce to Harold Burton Whitmore, Nov. 17, 1906 at 1 p.m. in Wash. D.C. [MTP].