January 22 Friday – Sam’s notebook:

Jan. 22. ’97. Was to dine with Mr. Wilson this evening, but late in the afternoon came a telegram to his house from King’s College Hospital saying “tell the friends of Mr. Wilson he has met with an accident. I went there in a cab, arriving at 6.20. Was not allowed to see him—too seriously hurt. Skull fractured back of ear, by a fall—streets snowy & slippery. He is in danger. His wife was to have sailed for American next week [NB 41 TS 5]. Note: this may have been his “Old Scotch friend & neighbor,” William A. Wilson, referred to in an Oct. 14-18, 1896 letter to Chatto & Windus.