March 3 Tuesday – Sometime during the Bermuda stay with H.H. Rogers, Elizabeth Wallace recorded her impression of Rogers and the interaction between Clemens and Rogers during card games:

One day as the Rajah [Rogers] came in to the dining room in his slow stately manner, the King who was already seated at the table said, “There he comes just like Gibbs’ Lighthouse, stiff and tall turning his lights from side to side.” The kindly simile was perfect in a way and I never afterwards saw the Rajah bearing down upon us without seeing the resemblance. The Rajah and the King love each other dearly and manifest their affection by abusing each other whenever the occasion offers and when it doesn’t making the opportunity themselves. Our favorite amusement of an evening is to play hearts and the Secretary [Lyon], who always keeps score, writes our names thus, The Author, The Rajah, The Dean, The Secretary. The Author usually prefaces the game by saying to the Rajah in a tone of kindly remonstrance “Now I hope you are not going to show your disagreeable disposition tonight. Do try to show us some pleasant sides of your character.” The Rajah with a perfectly serious face replies in the same vein and this is kept up throughout the evening so skillfully that the Secretary and the Dean never grow weary, on the contrary they are convulsed with silent mirth. They—the King and the Rajah—both hold to the theory that the other would be a hopeless outcast were it not for his regenerating influence and they assume a high moral tone when they reason with one another [Hill 204-5].

Charles E.S. Wood wrote from Portland, Ore. to ask Sam for the Pacific Monthly Magazine to submit some article. Wood had been writing for them without pay, but they would pay Clemens. He enclosed several articles from the magazine which are in the file [MTP]. Lyon wrote on the letter, “Answd. May 7, ‘08” and on the envelope a note “Answd. Mch. 10” with another cryptic note that Sam could not comply due to his contract with Harpers.