July 13 Friday – In the a.m. Sam and H.H. Rogers sailed again for Fairhaven on the Kanawha [July 12 to Lyon].

Isabel Lyon’s journal (Dublin, N.H.):

“Zarathustra” has arrived!

And the evening post brought a note not so big as a post scriptum from Mr. Clemens. He was just off for Fair Haven, to spend Sunday there & then on to N.Y. for another week of controversy & with Col. Harvey newly arrived from Europe to settle the matter. Settle it as to whether it is to be settled out of court—or in court. A dear note came from C.C. too, she is in better spirits now than a few days since, and a letter from ABP [Paine] was in the same batch. Such a good letter.

Today I walked again to the birch “house” in the Upper Pasture. It is so beautiful there, & as wonderful as many cathedrals. Oh it [illegible word] [MTP TS 95-96]. Note: again, Lyon deletes lines positive about Albert Bigelow Paine, and about the walks she took to the “Upper Pasture” with him, where they had long talks. At some later point it suggests that he lost her favor, and she went in to strike out such passages. July 13 and 14 entries have long diagonal parallel lines through the text, as if she wanted to omit these entries. “Thus Spoke Zarathrustra”: treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche published in four parts (1883-1885); see Gribben 508.