December 20 Friday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam wrote to Frances Nunnally.

I suppose you are about to leave for home, dear Francesca, so I am hasting to wish you a happy holiday-time before you get away down there out of my reach. Indeed you are much too far out of my reach even when you are in Catonsville. I wish you were going home by way of New York, so that I could have glimpse of you, you dear little rascal.

It is hard times, now; still I am going on, with the house I am building in the country, & there’ll be plenty of room for you, & you must come & see us next summer, & stay as long as you can. That Tuxedo visit was much too short.

 Please remember me to your mother when you get home. You are going to be a glad child soon!  [MTAq 86-7].