April 12 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Here I am missing the sweetest of all sweet chroniclings—the daily life of the King. But I have been so busy, for there is this house to look after, and the Tuxedo house to think of and plan for, and the Redding house to be after too, and Santa to love and be with when she was here and do for, and Jean to be anxious over and to help if I can and her doctors to see, and the King’s social life to look after—for in these days he is very lonely and reaches out for people—and people he must have, so now I’m planning parties for him.

Later  The King has just been up here to ask if I have sent off the Auto installments for the May N.A. Review. But I haven’t yet, for I’m reading them first and “Jim Wolf and the Cats” with extracts from Susy’s Biography make a good number.

Oh, I’m so happy. The King dropped down into my chair with his sweet droop of figure, and I hated to see him walk away again [MTP TS 52].

Frank T. Searight for American Press Humorists, Los Angeles wrote to Sam, inviting him to their annual meeting and advising of a monument at Laramie,Wyo. For the late Bill Nye [MTP]. Note: see Apr. 18 for his reply.

Harper & Brothers wrote to Sam asking his “formal assent to making the usual arrangement with the Tauchnitz Library for the publication of your ‘$30,000 Bequest,’ for an outright payment of Fifty Pounds… the edition not to be sold outside the Continent” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Yes, I am willing, but I have the vague impression that they have always paid a hundred pounds heretofore.”

Review of Reviews wrote to Sam that they were sending the of Home Medical Library, just published, and “If when you have looked over the six volumes you care to send us your opinion, we should very much appreciate it” [MTP]. The Home Medical Library, 6 vols., Ed. Kenelm Winslow and 10 “assisted by’s” (1907); Sam later donated the set to the Mark Twain Library in Redding.