January 6 Sunday – Bermuda, the last day. The group spent the day riding through Paget and Warwick, then to Hamilton Parish and to Joyce’s Dock Caves, which were “brilliantly lit with acetylene gas, showing stalactites of enormous size.” Later in the day Sam and Joe tried to find places they’d been back in 1877, when they stayed in a boardinghouse run by Emily Kirkham. They asked about and found the woman, now 48. This search became a subject for his Autobiography, and evidently Sam dictated segments to Miss Lyon during the trip and the voyage home [D. Hoffman 72].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Paget—Warwick—Joyce’s Cave—out all day. Kirkham.

Mr. Clemens pointed it out to a passenger who has spent much time in Bermuda in its varying seasons. The passenger said, “Oh, you couldn’t stay in Bermuda in the summer, your shoes would mould over night.”That didn’t disturb the King; he replied, “That’s all right, I’d wipe them off & put them in the sun every morning” [MTP TS 6].

Daughters of the American Revolution sent Sam an engraved invitation to the Anniversary of General Washington’s Wedding Day, a dinner at 6 p.m. on Jan. 6 [MTP]. Note: Sam drew vertical wavy lines down the 6×6” invitation and wrote in a box at the top, “Too late” after first writing “maybe” then scratching it out.

Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.