April 19 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: We’re just starting for Hartford. It is snowing and the King who is lathering his face for a shave suggests that I get Mrs. Whitmore on the telephone and tell her that he “may be a little late in arriving for he has mislaid one of his snowshoes.” And then such a chuckle of delight he gives as he swabs his face and I go spinning up to the telephone. I wouldn’t dampen one joke of the King’s for worlds, except where Mrs. Rogers is concerned, for she can’t be joked with over a telephone. Dinner tonight at Mrs. Whitmores with Annie Trumbull and Mr. and Mrs. Bissell [MTP TS 53]. Note: George P. Bissell, Hartford banker; see Vol I entries.

Raymond B. Butler, Secretary of the 1908 Johnstown High class wrote to Sam from Johnstown, NY. They wanted a “few words” from him to be read at the planting of a tree on Arbor Day in his honor [MTP].

Minnie Maddern Fiske wrote to Miss Lyon. “Will you tell Mr. Clemens how deeply glad we are that he will allow us to use his name as one of the incorporaters of the Society for the Protection of Cattle on the Prairies” [MTP].

Chapters  from “My Autobiography—XVI” ran in the N.A.R. p.785-93.