March 5 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Late this afternoon Mr. Clemens slipped away up to the Grosvenor and telephoned to say he was going to dine with the Misses McMahon. Francesca and Rosamond Gilder were here and stayed to supper. Today Mr. Clemens read me some bits of manuscript that he has been working on. He is so wonderful, so ennobling [MTP: TS 43] Hill adds a line not in the TS: “[Jean] hated it and refused to type any of it” [100]. Note: see Trombley p. 63.

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Telephoned asking Col. Harvey about his part of the “Hand” article, but Col. Harvey is in Wshington. / Mr. Clemens read some MS. to me. / The Poet & his friend & the Admiral [MTP TS 7]. Note: this article became “Refuge of the Derelicts.”

John F. Weir wrote from Yale University School of the Fine Arts to praise Sam’s JA and “especially the article in the Dec. ‘Harper’s’” [MTP].