June 22 Monday – In Redding, Conn., Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to Dorothy Quick.

Dear Dorothy: / Mr. Clemens has just left for town, & he asks me to invite your mother & you to come up here on Thursday the second leaving N. Y. Central on the 4:15 train M for Redding. Mr. Clemens & Mr. Paine will be on the same train. Please do not disappoint Mr. Clemens. He sends you much love, & to your mother too. / Yours Ever / I. V. Lyon [MTP].

John Larkin wrote to Sam about the Archer County, Texas property, enclosing a check for $135.52 in payment of Samuel Wilson for interest for 1908 [MTP]. Note: IVL: “Answd / June 24, 08”

John R. Marks wrote from Prince Edward Island to thank Sam for the “kind words spoken at Delmonicos on May 25 in honor of Queen Victorias birthday.” Though Marks was only 30, he had read of the Queen’s history; he sent verses for her on the day she died (not in file) asking their return when convenient [MTP].