January 20 Tuesday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to General McCook about Jean and Katy Leary arriving in Old Point Comfort, Va. on Jan 24.
Greeting & salutation to the ladies, & to you, upon whom be peace!
Next Saturday forenoon, the 24th, my daughter Jean will arrive at Chamberlain’s in the guard of a trained nurse & of a maid who has served in our family 22 years, & I beg that you & the ladies will tell Jean how & where to seek comfortable & reputable quarters for herself & gang somewhere in the town if you can. Jean has just pulled through a siege of double pneumonia & is ordered South for a few weeks to recuperate. I do not go with her because I must stay & take care of my part of the hospital. The other daughter is laid up, these past few days, & the mother has not been out of bed for more than 5 months. I am the only member of the family fit for military duty [MTP]. Note: this may be Gen. Edward M. McCook (1833-1909); see July 19, 1866 entry.
Sam’s notebook : “Sam Jones’s Reception in Heaven. / [Horiz. Line separator] / Put in Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven / [Horiz. Line separator] / The Scotch boy & Westminster Abbey” [NB 46 TS 7].
David A. Munro wrote to Sam. “I fully expect that McCracken will have an article in the March number [NAR]. … I suppose you have noticed that you drew the fire of Her Divine Supremacy Pope Mary Baker S. Eddy I in an Encyclical issued a few days ago”[MTP].