March 12 Thursday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Sue Crane.
Dear Assu: / Livy has just been instructing me to pay you what Vix was owing you when he died, for his keep his funeral, which she thinks is $100, & I am to add $5 & ask you to buy flowers with it for the 19th, for our dear child’s grave, if you will be so good. I will try & not forget to put the check in this letter.
Livy sends world‘s of love. She gets along a little, but it is slow, poor girl; she keeps up her spirits in a wonderful way, by help of mental applications, & I think she is marvelously patient & uncomplaining. She says she so longs to see you, & I tell her she surely can before very long, if she keeps on improving in even the least degree.
I continue to see her a few minutes twice a day, & Jean has had two glimpses of her a week or so ago; & another glimpse ought to be about due, we think, but the doctor says no, not yet awhile.
A couple of us had a very delightful dinner-visit with Julie & Jervis the other night—it was a charming evening. With ever so much love, dear aunt Sue— / The Holy Samuel [MTP]. Note: the date of the dinner with Julia and Jervis Langdon II is not known.
Sam’s notebook: “Text: Sloane’s talent is in superintending. While all the boarders were in tumult over the fire, he alone was tranquil. He came, he saw, he superintended. Said, ‘Beruhigen sie Sich’—then: ‘Giessen sie das Wasser &c’” [NB 46 TS 12]. Note: likely prof. William Milligan Sloane.