July 31 Wednesday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam sent a telegram to Miss Dorothy Quick at the Turell Inn, Plainfield, N.J.: “Letter for you at your Inn I sent it several days ago. / S.L. Clemens” [MTP].

Dorothy Quick wrote from the Truell Inn, Plainfield, N.J. to Sam.

On my return from Long Island I found your telegram and letter waiting for me. I was so glad to get them and to know you missed me too for I have missed you so much, and will be so glad to see you again so soon. I have never been away from Mother at all but I have promised her to be very brave and not to get home sick if she would let me go to you so she has promised and will write you by this mail thanking you so much for wanting me with you. I am with lots of love and kisses, / Your little friend / Dorothy [MTAq 46]. Note: the letter from Sam was ca. July 27.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Mr. & Mrs. Ogden & Mrs. Wolfe & Mr. & Mrs. Kane dined here with Col. Harvey & as tonight the King sat under the red lamp & read Wapping Alice to us. It’s intoxicating to write that. It’s like a line of strong moving poetry and it is strong & moving poetry for those who can see the King under the red light, & hear him read Wapping Alice, or anything under God’s heaven [MTP 88].

Emma Gertrude Quick wrote from Plainfield, NJ to Sam about her daughter Dorothy Quick staying with Sam and Miss Lyon. Dorothy had never been away from her mother, was a baby really, but if she got homesick or was too much trouble to let her know; A second letter from Dorothy, per her mother, that she had never been away from home but promised to “be very brave and not to get homesick” [MTP].

Clara J. Gordon wrote from “Paul Smith’s” in the Adirondacks to Isabel Lyon. Gordon had been promised a signed photograph when she saw Clara Clemens in concert at Norfolk, Conn. and asked if she might now receive one [MTP]. Note: catalogued as to Clemens but is to Lyon, who wrote on the top “Answd. July 31, 1907”

John Leary wrote (before July 31) from NYC to welcome Sam home and to praise IA [MTP].