August 24 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:  Zoe and Margery left today. The King seems to improve with every day. Paine who came up for billiards remarked that the King doesn’t play as good a game as he did. But that is clearly understandable, for the King has been teaching the game to young strong men, who now are playing as well as he does, and better, for many of them have had instruction from experts in “draw shots” and “English” etc. and have no more wit than to come here and to tell the King how to make his shots. That would have to sap the strength from any man’s game. It is no wonder that he said, “This is a God damn Hell of a game! Let’s quit!” [MTP: IVL TS 61].

Albert Bigelow Paine and Samuel E. Paine show as guests in the original guestbook, p.1 under Aug. 24 [Mac Donnell TS 1].

Miss Ethel Payne wrote from Dover, Missouri to Sam. She was compiling an article, “Famous Flowers of Famous Men” and asked him to write with his favorite and give her permission to quote his remarks [MTP].