March 24 Friday – Isabel Lyon’s journal:

Today I telephoned to Mr. Bowen (he’s Col. Harvey’s secretary and has such a nice rich voice over the telephone), for Mr. Clemens. After Mr. C. had been closed with Mr. …….. for some time and he’d gone, Mr. C. “gonged” for me and said “Telephone to Mr. Bowen and ask him to step into the Colonel’s office and ask what has become of the Colonel’s automobile. Just say I’ve been dressed and waiting for more than a week. If anything’s the matter with the ’mobile I’d like to know so that I can undress and go to bed and have some sleep” [MTP: TS 47]. Note: the name omitted in the second line was likely because she wasn’t sure if he’d been talking to Mr. Herbert E. Bowen.

Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Sent a little Satan MS. to Col. Harvey. / ‘A Humane Word from Satan.’ It’s about the Rockefeller gift to the American Board” [of Missions] [MTP TS 9]. Note: “A Humane Word from Satan” ran in Harper’s Weekly for Apr. 8, p. 496. The piece was signed “Satan.”

Daniel Carter Beard wrote on Recreation Magazine (NY) letterhead to Sam.

I fear that in my visit to you I stayed too long and tried you; but when I get with a man of your stamp it is very difficult to decide upon the time to get away. My interest is so aroused and you have a way of so stirring up my feelings that if it were not for decency’s sake, I would have stayed all day.

However, what I want to say is that I appreciate the compliment which you paid me by reading to me that delightful prayer…

I have in hand a letter from the secretary of the Society of Illustrators asking me if I can prevail upon you to accept a dinner given by them. I told them that you were ill and in mourning and I did not think that it would even be proper for me to ask you…[MTP]. Note: Beard’s visit was on Mar. 11; also see Sam’s reply of Mar. 30.

Frederick A. Duneka wrote to Sam. “Mr. H.H. Lewis who was one time editor of Ainslee’s wants an interview with you for the Woman’s Home Companion, a periodical with a circulation of 400,000 among the ordinary women of America. What do you think?” Duneka had just read Sam’s “letter from Hell,” and thought it great [MTP].