June 2 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Santa left at 3:14 and I came back to build a fire in my study and to settle down and read Dr. Long’s reply to Roosevelt’s attack on his books of nature[.] I went to sleep in the chaise lounge and rested some weary things within me, and went down at 7 o’clock to a solitary dinner, for the King had lunched with the Rogers’s. To my delight the King came wandering into the room with the salad, and then he talked steadily until after 10. He’d like to have Paine double column one or 2 of Long’s books with one or two of Roosevelt’s and he wants to write an article himself on this debate. After dinner we talked in the library. He wants to take the “Mysterious Stranger” MS over for Kipling to see, for parts of it are represented in “Puck of Pook’s Farm” that I took down to the King last night. Then he talked about missionaries, with not much respect for them [MTP TS 63]. Note: The references here are to the Theodore Roosevelt–William Joseph Long clash over Long’s nature books. Gribben gives Long (1867-1952) and lists his Beasts of the Field (1901) among Twain’s library [419].