April 5 Tuesday – At the Villa Reale di Quarto near Florence Sam wrote to Miss Margaret Sherry.
Mrs. Clemens thanks you ever so much for the lovely Easter token, which arrived this morning & brought us all very near to you & most pleasantly. Mrs. Clemens tells me to send you her love & say that she has missed you so much this winter, and many & many a time has wished you back.
Yes—& fervently I wished it too, & cursed myself liberally & comprehensively for ever allowing you to get beyond Gibraltar.
The madam has never gotten back to where she was in those November days when she could sit up & be wheeled all about the house.
My love & the family’s to Dr. Moffatt, per telephone [MTP].
Katharine I. Harrison wrote to Sam, enclosing a letter from Miss Lancashire, whom she did not know nor thought was any relative of Mr. Charles Lancashire. She was glad to know Livy was better [MTP]. Note: Miss Lancashire’s note is not extant.