November 23 Wednesday – At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Susan Crane.

Dear Sue: / Jean will come down from the Berkshires next Tuesday or Wednesday, & I expect to be located in the house (it is 21–5th ave) a day or more before she arrives. I think we shall be sort of half-way settled by three or four days after Jean arrives—settled enough to see nieces, anyway—& shall be glad to see you then, for you won’t mind what is left of the confusion & unsettledness. It won’t look like a home, by that time, but it will at least be on its way to that. We’ve had a steady 3-months’ job of it, & the interior aspects are still so forlorn that Katy does not allow me to look in at the door; & as I desire no depressions of spirit, I obey. But I am getting impatient, for I am very tired of being homeless & living by myself [MTP].

Katharine Lampton Paxson wrote to Sam, enclosing a clipping of one of her poems from the Christian Observer, titled “Sorrow”. “I was a little girl and used to sit on your knee and listen with such delight to you and Papa, arguing on every question under the sun.” She sent her “deepest sympathy” and love to his daughters [MTP]. Sam wrote on the env. “This is from a daughter of ‘Col. Sellers’ His name was James Lampton.”