January 13 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “I have lost 2 days of real living owing to my strange headache. Mr. Clemens is still in bed. Gout again. We play cards every evening. Today Mother went to the Customs Office and found there Don Raffaello’s gift to me. A book in a bottle, very realistic” [MTP: TS 37].

Josephine Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) wrote from 110 Riverside Drive to Sam. “Many thanks for your autograph in the ‘Jumping Frog’; when my daughter is six months old, I shall begin to read it to her.” She sympathized with his illness as she also suffered from bronchitis [MTP].