March 29 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:  The band concert at Prospect when dear John Wayland and the King sat on a rug apart from a batch of women, for when he goes to listing to music he doesn’t want anything else. No feminine chatter—and up near the tennis court sat Madame Wayland, and Mrs. John W. and Josephine Dascomb [sic Daskam] Bacon—such a chatterer—and a Mrs. Gordon. Then home. This afternoon we went over to the Long Beach on the South Shore where the King and Zoe Freeman went in swimming. The King at 72 was as young and vigorous in his wide strokes as a youth would have been [MTP: IVL TS 40]. Note: Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (1876-1961 ) poet and author of novels and several stories published in Atlantic, Scribner’s and other magazines [Who’s Who in America 1908-1909, p. 68]. She was also a pioneer in the Girl Scouts movement and compiled their guidebook.

Dorothy Quick wrote to Sam.

Dear Mr Clemens.

      I wrote you a long letter last week but by some mistake it was not mailed in time for Saturday steamer so I am writing again   I will mail this one at once so there can be no mistake   I know from your letter it must be beautiful in Bermuda and I should love to be there with you and make the acquaintance of Maud   I am sure we would all be very good friends and have lots of fun together    I have one more autograph of F. S. Church (artist) it is very nice, he drew a picture and autographed it wasn’t that nice of him? I am doing very well in school now. I have a lot of stamps and am getting along very well with my collections    I suppose the lilies are out now they must be beautiful I shall be very glad when you are back but I do not blame you for wanting to stay as long as you [can] as the weather here is very changable. Hot one day cold the next. With lots & lots of love to you and Miss Lyon I am / your very loving Dorothy

P.S. I am so glad I am a member of the Aquariumn lots of love [MTP]. Note: the source surmises the artist was Frederic E. Church, landscape painter who lived near Hudson New York, and had a brief friendship with Twain in 1888 [n1].