April 15 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Twichells go” [MTP TS 53].

Frederick D. Evans wrote from Fort McDowell, Calif. to Sam being bothered by a statement Sam made in “Concerning the Jews”some four years before, he thought in Harper’s Magazine. “That you had no prejudice against any nationality—save one. / What is that one?” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Quote the paragraph / no recollection / explain it if he can”

Joseph B. Gilder wrote to Sam for Putnam’s Monthly. “I am sorry some one else has a prior claim on you as a ‘sitter,’ but do not despair of having Mr. Paddock make a portrait of you later on. I have arranged with Mr. Howells to sit for a portrait…” [MTP].

Editors of the N.Y. Times Clemens an invitation to meet C.F. Moberly Bell, Mgr. Of the London Times, at dinner Apr. 15, 8 p.m. [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Larken / Sorry but I haven’t a vacant hour between this & the time I go away for the summer on the 3 of May / ask priv of coming a little late.  Should be able to get there in time.”

Anna M. Laise Phillips wrote to Sam asking for “a few brief sentences by mail” she might read to her graduating class of the Laise-Phillips School, “young women of wealth and culture” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Calls come every day / Answrd Apr. 24 ‘07”