May 25 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: The microbe has fixed it—we won’t ever die, but live forever and ever as disintegrated oxygen and hydrogen and gases and acids and things. It’s quite dreadful and very fascinating. The mystery and workings of that brain. I’m reading away back in his first book and just loving that “Innocents Abroad”, with its choice way of looking at places and things and people and events centuries old. Today the music was very beautiful. Like a sweet spirit [MTP TS 60].

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “The wonderful microbe MS. grows. Mr. Clemens read more of it tonight” [MTP TS 19].

H. Roswell Bates wrote on Spring Street Presbyterian Church letterhead to Sam, enclosed in Ebenezer Hayes’ note below. Bates had met Sam at tea at William E. Dodge’s house in Riverdale and since had wished Sam might speak “before one of our clubs here,” then mentioned the Philia Club of “ambitious young men” which met every Thursday at 8 p.m. [MTP].

Ebenezer Hayes for the Philia Club wrote to Sam that he’d been instructed to write and invite Sam to speak to the Club of “young men for intellectual and social benefit.” He enclosed the above note from H. Roswell Bates [MTP].