May 16 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “C.C. came and finds it charming” [MTP TS 57].

Frances F. Cleveland (Mrs. Grover Cleveland) wrote from Princeton to Sam.

We have had your letter. Of course it will require consideration—and Mr. Cleveland will write you when he can get is mind on it. He isn’t very well, and it may be a little while before he can decide it, & notify you. But you must realize he is not forgetting. You are good to include me. I am so uncertain a sailor—(though why uncertain, when I am sure to be sea sick?) that I fear my courage won’t come to the point—But we shall see. / Very sincerely… [MTP].

H.W. Grove for Univ. of Michigan Student Lecture Assoc. wrote to ask Sam to visit during the coming year [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter: “Answd May 27, ‘07”

J.V. Holmes wrote from Walpole, N.H. to ask Miss Lyon if the Clemens family would be in Dublin again this year. What about the dog Prosper—would he remain there long and if not where would he go? Was the wagon and harness for sale, and if so how much? [MTP].

May 16 after – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Gerald Christie, of the Outer Temple, London. Sam had “ceased from lecturing permanently 9 years ago” [MTP]. Note: the Outer Temple is thought to have been one of the “Inns of Chancery” where law was taught in the 12 and 13 centuries. Today it is occupied by barristers.