October 13 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: All day except when we went to Mrs. Hoyt’s for luncheon we have been playing Hearts and using Coffee beans for counters. Ashcroft makes a pleasant, bright, considerate and properly appreciative third hand. The King won everything, with occasional streaks of very bad luck, and on one occasion when he picked up a bad hand he said, “This would be a hell of a hand even in the Kingdom of Heaven.” He is so sweet and winsome to play with, and shouts with delight when I pile Hearts upon Mr. Ashcroft who makes such a good butt for our villanies [MTP TS 114-115].

J.B. Houghton wrote from Shoals, Ind. to urge Sam to print the entire Autobiography [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote for Sam on the letter, “Tell him there’s too much of it to print. There’s 6 or 7 times as much as appeared in the North American Review”; Houghton would have to wait 100 years.

Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP. Note: MTP lists this A.D. date as “conjectural.”