January 15 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Today has been very full of the joy of living. I wrote letters and read some in the morning. Looked out of my window just in time to see dear Mother look up at me on her way home from Church and in the afternoon she came over. Later I played cards with my chief. Some day the penalty for having such perfect living will come [MTP: TS 37]. Note: on Jan. 3, 1933 she added a note to this entry that “No penalty attaches itself to perfect living. No penalties ever attach themselves to joys.”

Theo Mead wrote from 55 Duane St., NYC, to Sam, inquiring about an episode where Clemens reportedly was sued by a Christian Science “charlatan” for $400. Was this correct? Mead wished to use the case to “warn possible victims” [MTP].

The National Institute of Arts and Letters chose eight more members to the Academy of Arts and Letters: Henry James, Charles Follen McKim, Henry Adams, Charles Eliot Norton, John Quincy Adams Ward, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Bailey Aldrich [MTP enclosed in 30 May 1905 to MT].