April 5 Sunday – At the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to daughter Clara in N.Y.C.  

Clärchen dear, I hope you are entirely well & hearty by this time. I don’t know where you are, but you are drifting professionally around somewhere, I suppose—& hope.

I have led a lazy & comfortable life here for six weeks, & am sorry it will come to an end next Saturday—a shade less than a week hence. It is a most pleasant & useless life,—as far as other people are concerned. I have been useful only once: I talked for the hospital, one night & made some money for it. Next Thursday I am to be useful again—a talk for the aquarium, which is the Governor’s pet, & a very worthy one. It will be a great institution by & by, & will draw the scientific folk from many countries. But it needs money now.

Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada is visiting here, & is a good fellow—yes, & charming. This morning he said I was about the most conspicuous detail of the island scenery (my white clothes). But I was frank, & told him not to deceive himself: that it was not nature, it was art, & premeditated,—I got myself up so, to attract attention.

We have accumulated a fortune in delightful friends—some from abroad, some native to the place. In this way our sojourn had paid richly.

We’ll be at 21 on the 13th.

With heaps of love & kisses, / Marcus [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  Josephine Dascomb [sic Daskam]  is such a damn fool that the King would like to kick her and I’d like to give him a push to add force to the kick. Smirking and preening her feathers she kept calling herself the Rose of the Harem, and calling other people idiots, but put the accusation into their own mouths as in the case of Capt. Egerton the ADC, who, she said, told someone that he hadn’t any brains and so made him ADC. Her way of getting even with him because he hadn’t invited her to Government House. She took the good taste out of the morning we had had there at Prospect listening to the music, and watching the people. The cunning Freeman children, who more and more remind the King of Susy and Clara, came and snuggled up to us, and when the King went off to speak to Lord Grey, little Mary in despair said, “Oh, where has Mark Twain gone?” A part of the music finished in the banging overture style and she said, “I don’t like the way the music happens, now”  [MTP: IVL TS 42-43]. Note: Earl Grey govenor-general of Canada. Capt. Egerton is not further identified. Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon: see 29 Mar. 1908.