April 4 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “Admiral Wilkes / 8 via Venezia. / [Horiz. Line separator] / Mrs. Royson Ryerson / via de’ Pinti 51. / [Horiz. Line separator] / Mead, 21 vis Cavour” [NB 47 TS 8]. Note: AMT 1: 595 gives this notation of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes (1798-1877) as his first meeting of Mrs. Wilkes, born Mary H. Lynch. Admiral Wilkes was credited as “discoverer” of Antartica. In his A.D. of Feb. 20, 1906 Sam recalled this as “One of the last visits I made in Florence…”
Edward B. Caulfield of the Italian Gazette wrote to Sam, after hearing from Gregory Smith that Sam wished to see him. He suggested Thursday next. He also noted he’d rec’d a ticket for Clara’s concert [MTP].
Arthur M. Cobb sent Sam a 4×4 printed invitation to an exhibition “of his recent bindings and other things in leather, at Vieusseux’s Building, from April the Fourth through April the Tenth” [MTP].
Martha G. Gray (Mrs. David Gray) sent Sam a printed formal invitation for the marriage of her daughter Emily Gray to Mr. Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, on Apr. 4, Trinity Church, Buffalo, NY. No note was in the file [MTP].