May 5 Friday – Sam left NYC with H.H. Rogers on the yacht Kanawha for Fairhaven, Mass. [Lyon’s journal #2 TS 17; Lyon’s journal May 7]. Note: Due to learning of Clara’s impending appendectomy, Sam may have stayed in NYC. Lyon wrote that he was in Fairhaven. If he did not go with Rogers, it is then evident that Lyon did not know this.

Isabel Lyon and Teresa Cherubini the maid continued on their way to Dublin, N.H.

Isabel Lyon’s Journal: …we reached first Keene. Then after a queer supper we trolleyed to Marlboro and then took a nice carriage and drove 9 miles over surrounding fine earth roads to Dublin. The drive was beautiful. Theresa and I chatted Italian, and she called the lovely singing tree toads.

There was a lovely strange moonlight light in the sky, but there wasn’t any moon to make it— so the luminous white birch tree trunks were lovely in their mystery. We found the Dublin house perfectly lovely perched away up on a high hill and cozy fires blazing. Jean in spectacles sat reading Cooper.

The view is wonderful, wonderful. Far, far distant hills—hoary Monadnock to the South East— and forever the singing sighing breathing pines and hemlocks close to the very windows. And so silent—except for the songs of the pines and the birds. You see a glint of the Lake too. The restfulness of it is beautiful. The house is charming. I find it all in exquisite taste, because it has the lovely plasters and casts and books and colorings and pewters and things that I love.

Jean has been reading aloud to me. Heine’s inimitable verse. Herr Heinick [sic] certainly has made many lovely blossoms bloom for that dear girl [MTP TS 56, 57; Hill 105, in part]. Note: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856); See Gribben 305.

Katharine I. Harrison wrote to Sam [MTP]. Note: not found at MTP; this may be a duplicate of May 3.