March 30 Saturday – Isabel Lyon replied to Ferris Greenslet’s Mar. 26 request for letters of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: “We are a homeless family for so many years that not many letters were kept—but such as he has you are welcome to take—when Mr. Paine comes back in about a month” [MTP]. Note: this is catalogued “after Mar. 27,” the day of receipt, but is specifically given to Mar. 30 by Greenslet’s May 21 letter.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Seumas MacManus has written a sweet note to say he is sending books, 1 for the King, 1 for C.C. and 1 for me—his late wife’s poems.

Thereis a bowl of orchids in C.C.’s room. They are so beautiful that I am drunk with the tendernesses of their colors… [MTP TS 46-47; Gribben 445]. Note: Anna MacManus (Johnston) pseud. “Ethna Carbery,” The Four Winds of Eirinn. Poems by Ethna Carbery, Ed. by Seumas McManus (1902).

Charles A. Burkhardt for American Booksellers’ Assoc. wrote to invite Sam to be the guest of honor at their meeting on the evening of May 15. Sam was encouraged “to meet the men who sell your books” and speak to them [MTP].

W. Conyers Herring wrote on the SS Bermudian to Miss Lyon to decline joining her and Sam in their box the next day; the specific performance not given [MTP].