– Sam’s notebook:

“Visited  the Catacombs. One mummy (shapeless) & one slender young girl’s long hair  & decaying bones— both in stone coffins & both between 15 & 1600  years old.”

Notes suggest Sam was reading Alexander  Gilchrist’s Life of William Blake (1863) [MTNJ 2: 243-4]. He also reminded himself to “See death of Alexander VI in vol. 3 of History of Popes. 1   chap Appen” [244].  The section one in the appendix of volume three told the  story of a cardinal escaping murder, who then poisoned the man who tried to  murder him [Gribben 569].

Olivia Lewis Langdon finished a letter to Sam which she began Oct.  15 [MTP].