July 11 Sunday — In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote a Stormfield picture postcard to Dorothy Quick.
Dorothy dear, I’ve been intending to write this good while, but I am on the sick list & can’t very well do things. I went to Baltimore, June 8, & the journey, & the weather together broke me down, I haven’t had a well day since. Lately I keep my room almost all the time, & I don’t like the confinement much. A journey to New York last August gave me my first setback, but I soon got over that one. Shall get over this one by & by, but not right away. The old saw says “go it while you’re young” —& that is what I advise you to do, dear /
With lots of love /... [MTP;MTAq 261).
Sam also wrote in his Lyon-Ashcroft MS for this date:
Sunday, July 11, 1909. The Twichells (Rev. J. H. & Harmony) spent yesterday & the previous day here. That made an interruption. But this letter can stand interruptions. There is no hurry about finishing it. It is my only employment; also my only diversion, except billiards—daily from 5 to 7 p.m. with Paine; for I have at last acquired a “smoker’s heart,” by 60 years’ diligent effort in that direction, & am forbidden to make journeys, or take walks, or run up stairs, or accumulate fatigue in any other way. I have to hold still & keep quiet, Very well, I have a talent for it [MTP: L-A MS XIII]. Note: the remainder of this letter is placed on April 15 entry, as it is a description of giving Isabel Lyon notice.
Sam’s new guestbook:
| Name | Address | Date | Remarks |
| Miss Dr. Parry, | New York | July 11 | |
| & 2 Redding Ridge friends | |||
| Dr. Chase |
Héléne Elisabeth Picard wrote from France to Sam, describing and enclosing a photo of a feast and celebration to remember Joan of Arc (photo not in file). “I sometimes hear from you without your knowledge of it, either by my New York friend or by the papers. I saw some fine pictures of you and Miss Clara Clemens in your Fifth Avenue residence...” [MTP].