March 24 Tuesday – At the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam wrote to Frances Nunnally.

Francesca dear, this note will leave here 4 days hence by a slow steamer, & reach you 8 days from now—April 1. We sail April 11th & reach New York April 13 —Tuesday. Miss Lyon & my daughter will then go to Redding, Conn., where we are building a house, & return at the week- end—Saturday, April 18.

Then on Monday Miss Lyon will go to Baltimore & stay over night & fetch you home to New York Tuesday, & rest you up, & take you back to your school by the time it opens.

You consent, don’t you, dear? There is a comfortable room for you, & I would give you two if I could—or a dozen, if I had them. You will give us this pleasure, won’t you? The ship that fetches us home will leave New York the 9th of April, & if you write me by the 7 (to above address) I shall get your letter before we go hence. I am hoping you will say yes, dear heart. / With love, SLC [MTP].

Miss Elizabeth Wallace and her mother left the Islands on this day [D. Hoffman 119].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Betsy [Elizabeth Wallace] has gone away on the Bermudian. I’ve come to my room very lonely and very forlorn, and my spirit is covered with white blisters. Again I say it, that I must not let myself love people—but forever I am doing it. It is just as I said to Ashcroft: Betsy is wonderful because she understands a thousand things she does not know or even suspect. She lives out her dean-ship of the Junior College in the University of Chicago with not entire interest; for she is a living throbbing woman, and meant to be living a stronger throbbinger life [MTP: IVL TS 37].

Victor H. Paltsits wrote on NY State Capitol letterhead to invite Sam to the annual dinner for the New York Library Club on Thursday, Apr. 30, at the Aldine Assoc [MTP]. Note: IVL: “Answd Mch. 25—wd. Forward his letter to Mr. Clemens in Bermuda. Date of his return uncertain”