March 26 Thursday – Dr. Frederick Peterson wrote to Isabel Lyon recommending that Jean Clemens, her two nurses, and young friend Marguerite Schmidt (or Schmitt), who shared a cottage in Greenwich, Conn., might prefer Gloucester, Mass. On Apr. 18, Lyon and one of the nurses, Edith Cowles, would go to Gloucester and select a cottage for the girls [Hill 197; MTP]. Note: IVL wrote: “Heartily approve of Gloucester”

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  We dined—a lot of us—with Mr. and Mrs. Wayland, here in the hotel —Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, and Mr. & Mrs. Weir, Mrs. Peck, Mr. Ely, the King and I and afterward we all came up to the King’s room to hear him read Kipling. He was never in better spirit— never in completer understanding and John Wayland said that to hear such an appreciation of an appreciation—as in the “Sailor and Soldier Too,” poem—was a thing never again to be repeated. I suggested it to John Wayland, knowing that sometimes the King is weary after a dinner, or bored which is worse—and I knew that every soul there would treasure the memory of it, and then Mrs. Peck would have a place to smoke in. She wore a very beautiful gown that she called one of her “life-boats”—she is a bewitching woman, and a snare for men folk [MTP: IVL TS 38]. Note: Mary Allen Hulbert Peck, Robert Erksine Ely.

Margery H. Clinton wrote to Sam.

I telephoned to your house the other day, to find out if you had returned from Bermuda, and was told that you would not be back until April. I am so sorry, because I wanted to see you before sailing for Europe. Mother and I are leaving next Tuesday (the 31st), by the steamer Hamburg, for Gibraltar….

      Looking back over this winter, my pleasantest recollections are the good times you have given me, and I want to thank you again for being so sweet to me… [MTP; not in MTAq].