April 24 Thursday – Sam traveled to Philadelphia, to attend the funeral for Frank R. Stockton the following day. Sam’s notebook gives evidence: “Stockton’s funeral. Phila. Gilder goes at 10 a.m., the others at 11. I the latter” [NB 45 TS 11].

Sam served as a pallbearer for the funeral of Frank R. Stockton at the St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church in Philadelpha. Stockton died on Apr. 20 (see entry). Other pallbearers were: Bushrod C. Washington of Charleston, West Va., Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet; James Meade Dodge; Charles Collins of New York, J. Herbert Morse, A.B. Frost, Richard Watson Gilder, Cyrus Elder of Johnstown, Penn., of the Cambria Iron Works; Major John M. Carson of Washington; Prof. Louis J. Bevier of Rutgers College; and Judges William N. Ashman and James T. Mitchell of Phila. [NY Times, Apr. 25, p.3, “Frank R. Stockton’s Funeral”].

Sam likely returned to Riverdale soon after the services, as he was back home the following day.

In Riverdale, Livy wrote to Virginia F. Boyle, asking forgiveness for not getting back to her. “Could you come out on Sunday next & take luncheon with us?…Unless you have something hurrying you back to town we should like you to stay until the 4.26 [train]. If we work hard we can do a lot of talking in that time” [MTP].