May 10 Wednesday – The New York Times, May 11, p. 1 ran a squib that Clara Clemens was operated on in the afternoon by Dr. Hartley (likely Dr. Frank Hartley 1856-1913).

At 8 p.m. at 21 Fifth Ave. in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Susan Crane.

dear, it’s over, & Clara is doing well. She had a famous surgeon—D . Hartley. It was a bad appendix—long & slim & with crooks in it; it was getting ready to be a dangerous case.

Good-night dear Sue—I am very tired, on account of the solicitude. / Holy Saml [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Today at 4 o’clock Santissima was operated upon for appendicitis. / Mother writes me every day—noble beautiful home letters, so full of her sweet saint self without knowing it at all [MTP TS 56]. Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “…Mr. Clemens stayed there for 2 hours—& at 8 o’clock Miss Clemens was still under the influence of the ether. Mr. Clemens has seen & talked with C.C. & found her plump & Oh so pretty [MTP TS 18].