February 25 Tuesday – In Bermuda, Sam made another excursion in the donkey cart, this time to Spanish Point with Irene Gerken. Reginald handled the donkey as before, while Isabel Lyon, Elizabeth Wallace, and William Benjamin all walked. H.H. Rogers did not go [D. Hoffman 105]. See Lyon’s entry below:

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “The King has found a little girl—Irene Gerken—& this afternoon we started for Spanish Point, the King & Irene in the donkey cart, with Maude. IT was happiness haunted by a sadness to course along these lovely roads, with the memory of dead little Juliet in my heart [MTP: IVL TS 27].

Mrs. Gerrit S. Clemens for the Womens’ Club of Texas wrote from Joplin, Mo. to invite Sam to visit Texas, where she spent part of the winter. She mentioned the “pleasant visit” she and the doctor had at Tuxedo Park in August 1907 [MTP].

Archibald Henderson wrote from Chapel Hill, NC to Sam. He was “almost finished” with his biography of Bernard Shaw but one chapter on Shaw’s philosophy kept him “awake at night”—would Sam read it and offer his opinion? He thought Shaw’s views must be close to Clemens’ [MTP].

Jervis Langdon II wrote to Sam sorry that the Bermuda trip would keep him from joining “at St. James Church with Julie and Edward and a few others to hear that glorious organ played by a splendid player—Mark Andrews….” They also needed one more investor at $5,000 and explained [MTP].