October 26 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: I don’t know how I got through all of it—doing 9 days’ work in 3 days, but it is over and I am in New York. Arrived at 3 to find the King and AB at billiards. I brought in the pretty little cat and the King was glad to see it. Myron Whitney came in to rehearse his concert program with Clara for the 11th. His voice is superb. They had to have the King come in to hear it, but the King was much annoyed, and hated to leave his billiards, even tho’ he had to concede that Whitney’s voice was wonderful. Receivership for Knickerbocker Trust [MTP TS 119].

Evangeline Booth for the Salvation Army wrote to avise Sam that her father, General William Booth (1829-1912), founder of the Salvation Army, would lecture in Carnegie Hall on Nov. 4, and, since he was 79, it would likely be his last visit to America. Sam could sit on the platform—and could they put his name on their list of attendees? [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “Thank you very much[.] Remember momentary meeting with General Booth in Oxford with much pleasure / Have stopped having name used” William Stone Booth was a different gentleman.

Joseph B. Gilder for Putnam’s Monthly wrote to Sam.

I told you after dinner at my brother’s house last winter, or longer ago, that Baroness Elizabeth de Nolde had asked me to try and get you to write a brief introduction to the book on Madame de Stael and Benjamin Constant. With that amiability and indecision for which you are noted, you replied that you wouldn’t write a damned word. I never told your love, but let concealment like a worm i’ the bud. If I had quoted you, the beautiful lady would doubtless have suggested that some other kind of word would do as well. / I enclose the Baroness’s letter, which has been in my hands for many a long moon [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote for Sam on the letter: “I wrote yesterday, Oct. 28 & told her that Mr. Clemens doesn’t write a line for publication for any one but his own publisher.”