April 20 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Mr. John Howells sent result of the estimates the furnace men made—$2000.00 for the lowest price. / Sent check to Miss Watson for Miss Harrison for $43,125.00 to pay for 1000 shares Utah” [MTP TS 14-15].

Jean Clemens wrote to the Editor of Harper’s Weekly; her letter was published on May 6, 1905 as “The Passing of the Egret,” available online via Google Books.

F.H. Hooper for Encyclopedia Britannica wrote to Sam seeking his testimony in lawsuits they had commenced against pirated “garbled Reprints of the Encyclopedia.” [MTP]. Note: see Hooper’s of Apr. 22, stating that Lyon had “telephoned in” a response on that day.