August 8 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: “The fallow days are still with Mr. Clemens. All day he has been very, very tired and resting. At dinner tonight the talk was of Babylon and its great, great glories” [MTP TS 84].

Frederick T. Leigh wrote to Sam that Duneka was on vacation and Sam’s post-card scheme, according to Sam’s wishes, would be “dropped for the present” [MTP].

Roi Cooper Megrue for Elisabeth Marbury wrote to Sam, acknowledging receipt of Sam’s letter about Mr. Timmory. “I do not quite understand your other letter. Did we send you a manuscript. Could you let me know by whom it was?” [MTP].