April 30 Monday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Robert Reid.

I keep thinking about that picture—I cannot get it out of my mind. I think—no, I know—that it is the most moving, the most eloquent, the most profoundly pathetic picture I have ever seen. It wrings the heart to look at it, it is so desolate, so grieved. It realizes San Francisco to us as words have not done & cannot do. I wonder how many women can look upon it & keep back their tears—or how many unhardened men, for that matter?  [MTP].

Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to H.H. Rogers. “M . Clemens directs me to hand you herewith his check for $50.000 . Will you kindly have an acknowledgment of its receipt returned by bearer” [MTHHR 605]. Note: the source indicates Sam’s finances “seem to have been in good condition” at this time [n1].

Sam also wrote to Marcella Sembrich, opera star: “Welcome back to life again, dear Madame Sembrich, after that stupendous adventure!” [MTP].

Sam would write ca. May 6 to Charlotte Teller Johnson that “Four went to Dublin last Monday, 6 are here, waiting for me.”