October 28 Monday – In Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Sam wrote to Frances Nunnally.

Now, dear Francesca, this is to admonish you—& please remember: your studies, & your outdoor & indoor amusement activities are very important, in fact are essentials, & any time filched from them for a courtesy’s sake means a loss not warrantable & not justifiable. You are a dear sweet Francesca, but you must not write letters to people on those costly terms. Neither must you filch time to read letters from people, except when they are very brief. Read part of this one: that will be sufficient.

I perceive, with pleasure, that you are having a very prosperous time down there, both mentally & physically. Let it continue! I came home last Thursday, Miss Lyon followed late on Saturday, with the Tuxedo servants. My daughter had already been domiciled in the house several days.

Dear me, I must stop making November engagements, right away! For there is Annapolis to be thought of. Of the five or six already made I can excuse myself from all but one—Nov. 19th I will make only conditional ones henceforth.

Yes, indeed, as soon as we hear from Gov. Warfield I shan’t fail to let you know. Also I shall allow myself time to kiss you & the rest of the 70. You, anyway, shipmate! / With love … [MTP].

Margery H. Clinton wrote from Tuxdeo Park to Sam, “delighted to have your autograph.” They were disappointed not to see him at the Autumn Ball [MTP]. Note: letter not mailed; likely delivered.

W. Emory Wardell wrote from Worcester, Mass. to ask Sam if the tale about Cecil Rhodes in FE finding a newspaper in the stomach of a shark was true, as he could not find it anywhere [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “Tell him that it will not be found in any biography of Cecil Rhodes because Rhodes was of a jealous nature / Merely a romance which I made up for my own amusement”