April 18 Saturday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Livy at the Radnor House, Bryn Mawr College, Penn.

Livy darling, Your welcome letter came, & I have talked to Jean & forbidden her to see Bessie to-day.

I am just home from the dancing-class, where I spent an hour & a half. It was very enjoyable. Jean danced well.

The Bryn Mawr packer left all of Susie’s things in the desk when he packed it. You can divine the result.

Sam added he was “pretty well battered up” from bicycling. His next letter revealed he did this with daughter Jean in the evenings, but hadn’t yet tamed the bicycle [MTP].

James B. Pond wrote to Sam that the Apr. 11 Stanley dinner was one he would have enjoyed — “DePew, Gilder & Stanley too declared it the best of the season. / How about say 50 readings next season?” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Can’t go next season” [MTP].