March 17 Sunday – Sam was en route to Bermuda on the Bermudian. It was now a two-day voyage.

Isabel Lyon’s Journal: Sunday afternoon I went up on deck to find the King with a Mr. Wilcox and then to find that he and Paddy had been enjoying a Mr. Binny, who was out at Katonah for awhile this winter, in Jean’s sanitarium. We also met his friend Mr. Aertsen. Both men are delightful and that pretty creature Paddy, proves a delightful bait for the very nicest men on board. She sat beside President [Charles W.] Eliot and seemed to delight him with her empty little remarks. She loves ice cream, but not candy, and she never drinks coffee, all of which she says with a conviction that makes you interested in what she is saying. She wears white when the fellows come to see her. She says a 5 page prayer to the virgin 5 times a day when she isn’t too sleepy and so on and so on, and she is so pretty” [MTP TS 121; also in part, D. Hoffman 78]. Note: Mr. Binny was Witter Bynner.

Mildred C. Sawyer wrote from NYC to invite Clara and Sam for supper on Apr. 2 at 11 [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Answrd. Invitation wd. Be referred to Mr. C. immediately upon his return. / Yes for C.C.”