May 20 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: King and I went to town on the 11:50. AB left earlier on the 8:30. King and I lunched at The Brevoort, lamb stew and beer, and such a good luncheon he found it. He dined at a David Munro Dinner at the Players for Col. Harvey who sails for England on Wednesday. In the afternoon we ran around to Martiging’s Studio to see the model for the Fulton Memorial. It is beautiful [MTP TS 57-58].

Charlotte Teller Johnson wrote on “The Broztell” stationery, NYC to Sam. In part:

My dear Mr Clemens—I am compelled to ask you and Miss Lyons to come in to see me in regard to a very serious statement which is reported to come from her with regard to my acquaintance with you. I should be glad to treat this with the silence which I felt to be my privilege when you and she told me of the gossip for the Players Club, but it is impossible for me [to] do so on the ground that it is merely rumor, for it has come so directly as her statement” [MTP].