May 16 Saturday – Dorothy Quick arrived in New York for a visit and stay-over at Sam’s house until Monday, May 18. With Isabel Lyon, the pair had tickets for “Girls” at Daly’s Theatre:

Insert: Girls, play at Daly’s theatre (See May 12 to Quick)

Sam saw daughter Clara, accompaniest Charles E. Wark (“Will”), and violinist Miss Marie Nichols off on the steamship Caronia, headed for Europe, where they were to give a series of concerts in London and Paris [May 19 to Allen; NY Times, May 17, p. 9, “Miss Clemens Sails to Sing in Europe”]. Note: Hill gives a performance in London at Queen’s Hall ca. June 6 and at Bechstein Hall, London on June 16 [200].

Isabel Lyon’s journal:  “Santa sailed today in the Caronia. / Dorothy Quick arrived this morning to stay ovr Sunday” [MTP: IVL TS 53].

The New York Times, p. 3, “Top Price For Grant Letter” included two letters by Mark Twain sold:

Two letters of Mark Twain, one dated “Kaltenleukgeben 1898,” “Go on: fire away; I am a firm and trustworthy target for checks,” and the other, dated “London, 1900,” “A month ago I put $25,000 into a promising venture here,” respectively $4.50 and $6.50. [Note: Both letters were to John Brisben Walker, Aug. 20, 1898 and Apr. 7, 1900. The investment was in the Int’l Plasmon Syndicate of London.].