March 25 Thursday – Sam wrote in Livy’s copy of Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,
Midnight March 25, 1869—I wish “Even Me” to be sung at my funeral.
The song was a hymn composed by William B. Bradbury in 1862. Sam claimed it his favorite in a Mar. 31 letter to Susan Crane [MTL 3: 184n9]. Note: NY Times report of Sam’s funeral, Apr. 24, 1910 gives Chopin’s Funeral March, Grieg’s “Death of Asa,” as the music played. See entry Vol IV.
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