December 21, 1902 Sunday

December 21 Sunday – Sam also wrote a couple lines to Chatto & Windus: “My Xn Science man has backed out, and isn’t going to contribute to my book. I think he is right; it would offend his people, sure” [MTP].

Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote from Boston just as his family was starting for Saranac Lake, NY to share the holidays with their son, in a sanitarium with tuberculosis. Aldrich was concerned about Livy, but felt she would “throw off” the illness in time. “Frank Bartlett’s account of his daughter’s case, which seemed incurable, would cheer you up if you could hear it.” And on news of the death of Thomas B. Reed, he wrote: “I didn’t now Reed formally, but he must have been a lovable man” [MTP].