May 11 Saturday – Though Sam’s stay was planned for five days, including a tour of the bay on a special steamer, and a possible visit Sunday to the First Presbyterian Church, but Sam and Isabel Lyon cut it short, leaving this morning, and escorted as far as Baltimore by Governor Warfield [Nolan & Tomlinson 4, 6-7].  

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Home again, the King to Tuxedo, I to No. 21” [MTP TS 56].

John Y.W. MacAlister wrote a whimsical one-page letter to Sam from London about the recent reports of the Kanawha being lost at sea.

The news of your death by drowning gave me a happy thought. I know you will not misunderstand that, for we both know that no one, who knows you as I do, would ever believe it possible you could be drowned, for that is not the appointed means of your ending. But the happy thought was produced by observing that you are still a fidus Achates of Rogers, that princely prince of freebooters…  [MTP]. Note: Fidus Achates: Latin for “Trusty Friend.”

Albert B. Paine, in Hannibal, Mo., sent Sam a postcard picturing a cannibal cartoon. “If nothing further happens before tomorrow night, This Cannibal / From Hannibal / Will take his Eastward flight” [MTP: Cushman].  

Lyman Pierson Powell wrote Sam a postcard (not mailed) headed “The Rectory / St. John’s Church / Northhampton, Mass. “The charge is seriously made against you in The American Queen for May, quoting the Oakland Herald of March 13, 1907, that your sole purpose in the publication of your book” CS “was to make money…” Powell was to write a book which would appear in Putnam’s that would be more favorable to CS—could Sam write “in refutation of the subtle charge which needs no refutation in my mind”? [MTP].

Sam and Miss Lyon would have arrived back in New York about 6 p.m. In his May 14 to Jean he wrote that Miss Lyon stayed over at 21 Fifth Ave. “& talk ‘house’ with Hon Jowells,” (John Howells, who was designing Stormfield) while he went “straight” to Tuxedo Park, “arriving at 7 p.m. & went to bed.”