April 4 Thursday – Sam left Elmira and returned to N.Y.C. this evening. Isabel Lyon’s journal: “The King came home from Elmira tonight very tired and depressed, I think” [MTP TS 48].
Edith Elsie Baker for the Actors’ Fund of America wrote to Sam, asking for “a donation of a hundred or more copies of some short but effective speech, joke or epigram from Puddenhead Wilson or Huckleberry Finn printed on a card or parchment about 6 by 8 inches”—these from his publisher; they to sell them for 25 cents [MTP].
Frank Sutton wrote from NYC to Sam. “I am pleased to enclose the two prints of the photos that I took on the steamer at Bermuda,which I hope you will accept with my compliments” [MTP].
Mrs. W.G. Moore, President of the Confederate Monument Assoc. putting in her request along with others, for Sam to speak in St. Louis [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Answrd Apl. 16 ‘07”
Edwin Warfield wrote to Miss Lyon, grateful that Sam had accepted his invitation to visit at Annapolis [MTP].