June 27 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: All day I’ve been weak with the wonder of that poem [See June 26 journal]. Mr. Clemens made some corrections in it and then let me take it— to read and read this morning. Later he came down stairs and talked about the kind of woman Mrs. Howells is. I’d just been saying that according to the way that Mr. Howells has depicted womankind in “Miss Billard’s Inspiration” [sic] he must have either an enchanting wife, or an utterly inconsequential one, and I think it is probably the latter, but there is that inconsequential side to every woman anyway. It wouldn’t be at all worth while for one woman to try to conceal anything from Mr. Howells anyway—for he knows everything about every woman [MTP TS 70]. Note: Miss Bellard’s Inspiration; A Novel (1905) by Howells.

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Today word came from Mr. Stoeckel that Miss Clemens’s horse ran away. She was not driving it” MTP TS 21-22]. Note: Robbins Battell Stoeckel.