May 21 Tuesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Today the King went to see Jean, making a day of it and came home weary at 7 o’clock. He had a talk with Dr. Sharp who said that only physicians know that the present Czar is an epileptic; people would pity him more if they knew of his terrible malady [MTP TS 58].

Ferris Greenslet wrote to Sam for Houghton Mifflin & Co., just back from “moist refrigeration in London and Paris” and finding Sam’s note of Mar. 30. He would be grateful for whatever letters Sam could send within a month or two of the late Thomas Bailey Aldrich [MTP]. Note: Greenslet initially wrote Clemens on Mar. 26; Sam’s reply is catalogued “after Mar. 27” by MTP; this note specifically puts Sam’s reply to Mar. 30, so the change is made to that date.