April 10 Friday – Several photographs of Mark Twain swimming in the Bahamas are given this date [Bob Slotta, eBay item 180516263500, June 4, 2010; See Hellen Allen’s of Apr. 27, D. Hoffman, picture p. 122]. Note: advertised at that time as the “Only known Under Water Images of him.”

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “I went to get a cedar chest today, and all the morning I was very busy, but went to the Allens at Bay House to photograph the King and Helen Allen in swimming” [MTP: IVL TS 45]. Note: see one of the photographs taken on this day in D. Hoffman, p. 126.