April 13 Friday – En route to New York on the S.S. New York at 7:30 p.m., Sam wrote to Livy:

We expect to be in New York about 10 tomorrow morning, Livy darling. I am waiting to be called to read — & the sea is increasing all the time. I am afraid I shall be alone — as was the case going over, except that Stead made some remarks. The sea was so rough that the music had to be given up. I think this sea is as rough as that one was.

Sam told of “A new thing” aboard the ship, called the “Pig Book,” a big album of blank pages where one was required to close the eyes and draw a pig, then sign the work. Sam then drew a pig on the letter and noted that he’d forgotten to put in the eye.

Some of the pigs in the book are strange looking creatures, & don’t always resemble pigs [MTP].