November 27 Friday – Livy’s 51st birthday. Sam wrote Livy a short note “With worlds of love” to her:

We have lost her, & our life is bitter. We may find her again — let us not despair of it. God knows how much poorer were by this loss than we were before; but we still have the others, & that is much; & also we have each other, my darling, & this is riches.

      This is the blackest birthday you have ever seen: may you never see its mate, dear heart [LLMT 328].