October 7 Monday – Isabel Lyon wrote to Dorothy Quick [MTAq 75-6].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Ashcroft went at 8:15 and I went to N.Y. to see about getting the house in order for C.C.” [MTP TS 113].

Howells & Stokes wrote to Miss Lyon requesting a new check be drawn in the name of William Webb Sunderland since both Howells and Stokes were out of town [MTP].

Charles J. Langdon wrote a short note, enclosing draft for $44.33 on the Buffalo property [MTP].

Cora W. Nunnally wrote from Atlanta, Ga., an appreciative letter to Sam for their visit and how Frances had been helped by his friendship [MTP].

Mary B. Rogers (Mrs. H.H. Rogers, Jr.) wrote to Sam.

Father Rogers has asked me to return your scurrilous literature, and to say, that as for him, he will have nothing to do with persons who indulge in anonymous postcards, however he might feel himself in sympathy with their sentiments.

He hopes that having enjoyed yourself, by taking away your own character, so openly you are ready to suffer the penalty, with meekness, which the law inflicts on those who are caught sending opprobrious remarks through the mail….Father Rogers says the aforementioned “penalty” is waiting for you down here and he wants you to come and get it” [MTHHR 643n2].

Note: On or after Oct. 7 Sam replied:

Read this & grit your teeth, Mariechen dear. Yesterday you were sending me that cunning post- card picture of a brother of mine, with the unrighteous purpose of “taking me down a peg”—as you slangers phrase it—& this morning comes this nice buttery card from a just & judicious shipmatess, & antidotally sets my self-complacency up again, a whole peg higher than it was before! Grit your teeth & try again—maybe you’ll score next time. Henry will sail at 10 tomorrow, & I am tied up & out of luck. / With love [MTP].

Clemens A.D. for this day is listed by MTP.