March 8 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Today Mr. Coburn called and brought some very wonderful photographs. George Meredith, Andrew Lang, Mrs. Ward, Edmund Gosse and many others. He brought some landscapes too, and when I showed one of some mighty trees to Mr. Clemens, at first he couldn’t make out the subject and when I told him what it was he said, “I thought it was the dinosaurus coming down town.”

Friday he will come to photograph the Signior Padrone [MTP: TS 43]. Note: Alvin Langdon Coburn, photographer, did come on Mar. 10 [ibid.] and would also take pictures on Mar. 11 [#2 TS 7] and also at Stormfield. Dec. 21-22, 1908. No connection with the Langdon family was found.

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr. Clemens signed lease for Dublin house” [MTP TS 7].