April 9 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “About 10 to night, awful attack—for more than an hour Livy struggled for breath. Clara was in there, Jean & I listened at the door” [NB 47 TS 9]. Note: Hill confuses the “triumph” and midnight conversation Livy had with Clara on Apr. 8 with this 10 p.m. attack on Apr. 9, and suggests a connection between this near-fatal attack and Clara’s public triumph, similar to the time in 1902 when Clara returned to Bar Harbor on the very day of another near fatal attack [82].
E.A. Hoisington, Mailing Agency in Detroit, Mich. wrote to Sam, sharing his plans to build a library and asking Sam’s advice on what books to include. He also wanted to know when Sam would return to America “and if the little prayer in my heart to see and talk with you can be realized” [MTP].