March 9 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Yesterday came a letter from AB containing a beautiful tribute to the King. I’ll keep it right here. The King was sweetly moved by it. He lies in bed a lot these days when he isn’t flitting around the billiard table. He played all the afternoon, or much of it after Mr. Stanchfield who had been lunching here left us. This morning I sat in the King’s dressing room while he shaved, & went over the batch of mail there. He has had a very pleasant invitation from the Governor of Maryland to visit Annapolis, & inadvertently “Boost up a Presbyterian Church—but it’s right in my line for I’m nothing if not a Presbyterian!” He has never been to Annapolis, & so is trying to find an excuse to go. He wrote the Governor’s wife, Mrs. Edwin Warfield,  a sweet & gracious letter. What a happy woman she will be when she gets it. I couldn’t get theatre seats for Mrs. Whitmore & me, so we sat cosily in the billiard room & watched the men play. Their big bantor [sic banter] is very good and it is great to hear the King’s rich laugh [MTP TS 36].

R.E. Gunning wrote from Memphis, Tenn. to praise CS and to submit a MS for Sam’s review [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote: “Answd. June 6, 07—”

Isabel Florence Hapgood wrote again to Sam. “Did you have your photograph taken last season wth Maxim Gorky? …will you be good enough to tell me where I can obtain a copy? [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote: “There was one taken—a flash light—the King says.” Clemens: “Don’t know anything about it. Think there was a picture taken, but is not here”