October 31 Wednesday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam was down with a bad cold.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Today the King really has cold and today the King has given up the Egyptian trip, for he knows that instead of spending the winter in Egyptian sunshine, he’d “spend most of it in an Egyptian cemetery”—Still “There isn’t much choice in cemeteries”, he thinks. He has been reading Letters from Egypt, in which the bad cold uncertain climate is much dwelt upon & Mr. Hunt’s words of “Roughing it,” make the King loathe to give up his home comforts. He’d rather “lie between velvet sheets”. I am so glad, so selfishly glad that he has given it up [MTP TS 142].

George W. Cable wrote to Sam.

This will be brought to you by Mrs. Hazen wife of Professor Hazen, (chair of history Smith College,) herself a Smith College alumna.

Mrs. Hazen has an errand to you from the college, and if you are resolved in advance not to respond favorably it would be best not to see her, for if you do you will either change your mind or shatter it [MTP]. Note: Charles Downer Hazen (1868-1941), historian, scholar, and author, including Europe since 1815 (1910), and Fifty Years of Europe 1870-1919 (1919). George C. Riggs and Kate Douglas Riggs finished  their  Oct. 28 letter to Sam [MTP].