April 1 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:  Bermuda: The Bermudian sailed away with such a cargo of folks. The greatest “miss” as these Bermuda darkeys say, is the Waylands.

Another of the King’s angel fish went too. He has his aquarium of little girls and they are all angel fish, while he wears a flying fish scarf pin, though he says he is a shad. Off he goes with a flash when he sees a new pair of slim little legs appear and if the little girl wears butterfly bows of ribbon on the back of her head then his delirium is complete [MTP: IVL TS 41].

Ralph W. Ashcroft wrote to Isabel Lyon, enclosing the Apr. 30 from Lincoln National Bank. He asked her opinion of various department stores in NYC. Also: “I saw Betsy and her mother off to Chicago. Betsy is quite my ideal of a girl.”  [MTP]. Note: “Betsy” was Elizabeth Wallace.

Margaret Blackmer wrote to Sam.

Dear Mr. Clemens:— / I received your nice letter and card.

      I would like very much to join your club. I think it would be a very nice one.       I like the shell more and more every day, don’t you?       Mother is out west and will be out for a long time. Maybe I can get Miss Tewksbury to bring me down to see you in the Easter vacation.       Today lots of pie beds were made and we played a lot of jokes on each other.       With lots of love. / Yours lovingly. / Margaret B. [MTAq 131-2]. Note: source claims “pie beds” were short-sheeted pranks.