February 16 Friday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Lucius Robinson.

Your cablegram gave me another stab in the heart—& there have been so many in these four disastrous years! Susy Clemens, Ned Bunce, Libby Hammersley, the Cheney children, others and still others—& now Henry Robinson, friend, wise adviser & beloved comrade from the day we first met till now.

It would be idle to try to comfort you or your stricken mother, for in words there is no comfort when a blow like this falls…[MTP].