April 2 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: This morning when I was searching through the multitudious letters in the study, for the one that gives me the true history of “The Postman Who Stole from the Mails”, and so furnish the material for the chapter in the Admiral’s Story, the gong gonged and I went out in the hall to find Mr. Poultney Bigelow saying “Mr. Clemens is clamoring for Miss Lyon.” I went in to answer the simple question “Had Count Lewenhaupt [the osteopath] a settled telephone address? Mr. Bigelow wants a treatment.” “No Count Lewenhaupt is a bird of passage even yet, No telephone number.” I have often wanted to see Mr. Bigelow—his breezy post cards with their big breezy signature from all quarters of the globe have interested me. His face doesn’t make you see all the life he’s lived [MTP: TS 49]. Note: “The Admiral’s Cat” became “The Refuge of the Derelicts.”

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr. Poultney Bigelow called this morning. / General Sickles called this afternoon, but Mr. Clemens & Mr. Twichell were out” [MTP TS 11].