December 10 Sunday – Another Dec. 6 form letter for the occasion of Sam’s 70th to Howard Pyle. Sam added this comment: “It is a most dear & sweet little Eve, & looks just as she did in those first days, when there wasn’t any night because that radiant creature still remained smiling around after the sun went down” [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Tonight while we were at dinner, Mary Lawton as a guest, Mr. Gilder came in and speaking of profanity in the great or literary people, he told how years ago when George MacDonald was over here, he asked MacDonald “if he were to know anything derogatory to Shakespeare, would he give it out to the world?” and MacDonald replied, “I’d be damned if I would!” Another case of the loyalty of writers to each other. They are a lovable and beloved clan [MTP TS 113]. Isabel Lyon’s Journal # 2: “Lunch with Mr. Watterson at 1. Manhattan Club” [MTP TS 36].
Stealla Weiler-Taylor wrote from Hamilton, Ohio to congratulate Sam [MTP].
Isabel Lyon’s journal:
Tonight while we were at dinner, Mary Lawton as a guest, Mr. Gilder came in and speaking of profanity in the great or literary people, he told how years ago when George MacDonald was over here, he asked MacDonald “if he were to know anything derogatory to Shakespeare, would he give it out to the world?” and MacDonald replied, “I’d be damned if I would!” Another case of the loyalty of writers to each other. They are a lovable and beloved clan [MTP TS 113]. Isabel Lyon’s Journal # 2: “Lunch with Mr. Watterson at 1. Manhattan Club” [MTP TS 36].
Stealla Weiler-Taylor wrote from Hamilton, Ohio to congratulate Sam [MTP].
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