June 6 Thursday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Today we came into town to begin the preparations for England. It’s a good thing that Ashcroft can go with him, but it has been making me heart- sick I think. I drifted into a headache and staggered about the house, but went down to dinner. Mr. Wark was here, and Mr. Paine, and after dinner the King led the way at once to the billiard room. I sat with those 2 sweet children for awhile and they gave me a ring, a lapis lazuli, in a quaint setting. I went to the billiard room for a very little while to show my new ring and to watch that darling game, but I couldn’t stay long, for the fiery red snake was feeding its way up into my head, and my bed was the best place on earth [MTP TS 65]. Note: Charles E. Wark, “Will,” Clara’s pianist.

John A. Kirlicks wrote from Houston, Tex to Sam, somewhat upset that his poem had been returned by the Century Magazine. “I now enclose it to you to make such use of it as your judgment suggests in giving it the broadest circulation” [MTP]. Note: The poem is not in the file.

Lyman Pierson Powell wrote from Northhampton, Mass. to thank Sam for his letter, and to advise he’d send his book on Christian Science by Putnam’s when it came out. He claimed he’d gotten closer to Mrs. Eddy than any other critic [MTP]. 

June 6 after – Butterick Publishing Co. for Theodore Dreiser sent Clemens a printed card announcing that Theodore Dreiser “had taken charge of the editorial departments of The Delineator” [MTP].