June 3 Saturday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: These days I am carried away by Margaret Oglevie [sic Ogilvy]. Barrie will never approach that book again. Late evenings after Mr. Clemens and Jean have gone to their rooms I sit before the open fire and read in the room steeped in tobacco smoke, such good contenting smoke. You want to cry in pain over the beauty of this living [MTP TS 62]. Note: Margaret Ogilvy (1896) by Sir James M. Barrie, was a rather maudlin tribute to his mother, Margaret Ogilvy.

Inez H. Gillmore wrote from Scituate Mass. to Sam. She had just rec’d a letter from Samuel S. McClure quoting Sam about one of her first attempts at fiction, “The Story that Took” in June’s issue of McClure’s. “He did not send me the letter [Sam’s] (the pig!) and so I must forego the joy of seeing such words in our very hand-writing.” Sam had made her “very happy” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon wrote for Sam to Norman Hapgood of Collier’s.

Mr. Clemens has recd a letter from Twichell in which he says that Charley Clarke [sic] of Courant is going with Taft to the Phillippines [sic]. Makes this suggestion to you that you get Mr. Clarke to do your Phillippine writing for Collier’s. It would be a pity to enter it in the Courant—that he is an abandoned & incurable administration Republican & Jingo—but no matter, he’ll sparkle & whatever he says will be worth reading [MTP: Cushman file].

Elisabeth Marbury sent a statement to Sam with a balance due him of $18.40 [MTP].