April 7 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Bermuda: The King and I went out to the reefs this morning in a kind of royal party, for Lord Gray the Governor General of Canada and Lady Gray and Mrs. (Bermuda Governor) Wodehouse went—and I did like it very much. Mostly it was quiet and restful. But I had a talk with Mrs. Wodehouse who turned to me at once when someone said of me “That is Mark Twain’s private secretary.” We got into the glass bottomed boats and were rowed out over the coral reefs. Oh, it is so beautiful to see the coral mound and the sea fans, and the finger sponge. The King said that the deep places were like the sage brush and the desert. Coming home I got some snapshots of the King and Lord Grey. I had a nice little chat with him and he is just a human man. Lady Grey let me take a photo of her, and we sat and chatted along for some time. It is just an accident of birth—but is it?—that makes them fitted for their great position—so someone says. But Lord Grey is a big strong man.

We drove out to Tuckertown and then had tea at Frascati (the Freemans and the Rogerses) [MTP: IVL TS 43-44].

Howells & Stokes wrote to advise Sam that the total cost of “all masonry, paving and carpentry work in connection with the terraces, steps, balustrades, paths, fountain, pergolas, benches, etc. arrived two days ago from Mr. Sunderland. It is $2,200…” Sunderland didn’t feel it was possible to finish all by the first of June, when Clemens had planned to move in [MTP].