March 19 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: We sailed away again this morning. We had a darling time when leaving time came, for every one way paying court to the King, and photographing him. We flew over to Trinningham’s [D. Hoffman shows this as Trimingham’s] and bought him a nice panama hat, one like Binny’s, and Binny was struggling with an Irish flag to hoist to the top of his hired boat in Paddy’s honor and altogether it was charming. The afternoon before there had been some good talk with Mr. Aertsen about the King, who all his life had been longing for just a chance to look at him even from a distance [MTP TS 41]. Note: Binny was Witter Bynner.

The Clemens party sailed from Bermuda on the Bermudian, bound for N.Y.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, age 70, died in Boston. His last words were, “In spite of it all, I’m going to sleep.” Sam learned of his death upon return to New York.

James DeConlay, Jr. of the Australasian Press wrote to Miss Lyon asking for Sam’s autograph, and enclosing a small Australian flag as her “graft” [MTP].

Samuel A. Eliot for the International Council wrote to invite Sam to be an “honorary Vice- President of the Congress” that would meet next September in Boston [MTP].