June 14 Saturday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam and Livy replied to Franklin G. Whitmore’s June 13, principally about the sale of the Farmington Ave. house, which had not yet sold but was actively being shown. Livy added that “of course you will not get your price $75,000,” but she’d hoped he might get $60,000. Sam announced they were breaking up housekeeping getting ready for a June 23 move to York Harbor, Maine [MTP].

Sam’s notebook listed more snippets of boyhood memories/ideas for the 50 years after story: “May aples, p’simmons, p’koun-nuts, pawpaw, hickory, walnut, hazel, butternuts. / frog in a lump of coal or rock / Father Hawley’s charity sermon—took a dime out of the collection box. / The Nigger-Head monument. / The baptism lone-hand. The revival. / Drowning of Dutchy / Blowing up of Tom Nash / Burgling the next house” [NB 45 TS 18].

Livy’s diary: “Miss Dodd & Elizabeth & Julia Dodge here for dinner, played Ping Pong in the evening” [MTP: DV161].