July 9 Thursday – Sam’s A.D. for this date continued to focus with “spectacular venon” (Hill 209) against Lillian Aldrich for the June 30 Memorial of her late husband, which Sam attended.  

Sarah S. Collier (Mrs. Robert J. Collier) wrote from Racquette Lake in the Adirondacks, N.Y. to thank Sam for his invitation to stay with him, “but I am settled here for the summer, and don’t expect to leave till some time in September” [MTP].