July 28 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Tino [ABP]. King is bed with bronchitis and cancelling a luncheon with Mrs. Wolfe and tea with Mrs. Kane. AB and I worked over old letters, until we were limp. Long after midnight there was a thundering rumble of the King’s voice and a slam of a door and some good swears and there hadn’t been a thing in the King’s room. “No whiskey, no towels, no soap, no water.” and it was fine to hear him swear around and wake up everybody in the house. Oh, he’s a darling King. He had gone into AB’s room to get those things finally and tell him how for 2 hours he had made up his mind that he wouldn’tlose his temper. No, he wouldn’t—but happily he did, for he says he can resist everything but temptation[MTP 88].  

The New York Times, p.7, “Sale of Cutter Curios – Mark Twain Expected to Attend” announced the sale of 3,039 articles from Bloodgood H. Cutter’s Little Neck, Long Island estate, on July 31 and Aug. 1. Cutter was Sam’s proclaimed “Poet Lariat” on the Quaker City excursion. Whether bronchitis or disinterest stayed Mark from attending the sale, a follow- up article by the Times on Aug. 1, p. 7, reported:

Artists bought the many costumes that the poet had collected in his travels, and one man, presumed to be an emissary of Mark Twain, bought the cocked hat and brown coat that Cutter wore when he was presented to the Czar during the famous trip of the Innocents Abroad. The cocked hat was knocked down for 25 cents and the coat for 75 cents.

Witter Bynner wrote from Windsor, Vt. to congratulate Sam on his degree, and to enclose a book of poetry [MTP].