October 31 Saturday – In Redding, Conn. Sam finished his Oct. 24, 26, 27, 28, 29 to Frances Nunnally.

[written in the side margin of page 1:] Oct. 31. I haven’t finished this letter yet, but Ashcroft wants to play billiards; so I will start it along & finish it another time. With very much love. SLC

[caption on an enclosed photograph] Affectionate greetings from this triangle, or trilogy, or whatever its right name is.

[caption on an enclosed photograph] Posing—for admiration. SLC

[on the back of the photograph] Study it, Francesca, & learn how to do it. SLC

[on back of postcard of Innocence at Home] Do you notice how empty & lifeless the house looks? Come along back and vitalize it. SLC [MTP].

Sam also wrote an aphorism to Miss Davies: “We ought always to behave, when people are looking…” [MTP: Sotheby’s London catalog, July 11, 1996, Item 148].

Sam’s new guestbook:  

Name Address Date Remarks

Charles Hopkins Clark Editor “Courant” Hartford  )      October 31  [* see note below table]     & two friends

      * Note: Sam wrote in the Remarks column: “A stately & handsome old relic of our ancient Monday Evening Club of Hartford. Almost all the others meet in the cemetery now, if they meet at all. They were choice men.”

Sam’s A.D. for this date included a clipping from the NY World issue of Oct. 30 reporting the death of Henry Butters [Gribben 507].