March 4 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: I saw Dr. John in the morning and he does not say that the eye will ever be much better, and then I met Jean who has had an equally successful trip in Dublin and found a very good house owned by Mr. Henry Copley Greene of Boston. She found a house too owned by a French Canadian. She stayed one night with Mr. and Mrs. Abbott A. Thayer. Today Herr Heinick came [MTP: TS 42].

John B. Stanchfield attorney in Elmira wrote to Sam that he had, “this day forwarded to Messrs. Lane, Lederman, & Lane, of San Francisco, Cal., a letter of which the enclosed is a copy. It does not go into the detail of a settlement, because I wish first to find out what proposition if any will be made. I think it covers the ground from our point of view.” Note: see Feb. 16 from Stanchfield, Sam’s attorney on the Butters matter and the disposition of assets from the bankruptcy of Plasmon Co. of America.

Mail from Elmira to N.Y.C. would have taken at least a day or two, so that Sam’s response, written for him by Lyon should be catalogued as on or after March 6 [MTP].

Henry Darracott Allison sent a telegram from Keene, N.H. to Sam: “Your acceptance received leases will be forwarded you without delay” [MTP].

William Webster Ellsworth of the Century Co. wrote to Sam, enclosing a clipping from the NY Evening Post praising Charles David Stewart’s (1868-1960) first book, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1905). Ellsworth asked if Sam had read the book that they’d sent him a copy of “some time ago,” and noted the Post likened it to Sam’s work [MTP]. Note: see Gribben 665.

Emma Beach Thayer wrote from Dublin, N.H. to Sam. “Dear Mr. Clemens, / You were very good to spare your daughter [Jean] to us. / We wanted to keep her much longer. / It is a delightful thought that you will be so near us, and will perhaps often drop in on us. You are very much worshipped by this family—the young people have grown up looking up to you with utmost reverence” [MTP].