January 14 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Trying to catch up the threads lost by that eadache. It is David’s [her nephew] birthday” [MTP: TS 37].

John Larkin, NYC attorney wrote to Sam and also wrote to Sam through Isabel Lyon. In the first letter he enclosed “a certified copy of an order fixing the transfer tax…on Mrs. Clemens’ Estate at $841.21.” In the letter to Lyon, Larkin confirmed he had her letter of Jan. 13 “enclosing notice of personal tax upon Mr. Clemens as Executor” of Livy’s estate. “When Mr. Clemens is able, if he will call some day at this office” (44 Wall St.) “I will attend with him before the tax commissioners and have the assessment reduced” [MTP].