September 25 Monday – In Dublin, N.H. Sam wrote to Frederick A. Duneka (letter not extant but referred to in Duneka’s Sept. 26) [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:“Some youngsters here for dinner and a romp. Jean in a turmoil and a nest of tempers because those young guests didn’t assemble in invited sequence. The two Henderson children, Gerald and Hildegarde, didn’t talk a bit—but listened spellbound to every word that fell from Mr. Clemens’s lips” [MTP TS 102].

Anna G. de Mille wrote from NYC to Sam. Her baby girl was a week old (Agnes George de Mille) and “one of the prettiest little babies that ever was…. But my reason for writing is to tell you how grateful I am for your little note to me. I prize it very highly” [MTP]. Note: daughter of Henry George; see Sept. 3