May 14 Sunday – Isabel Lyon’s journal: Evening now, and the voices of Jean and Italian Teresa come to me as Jean is having her usual confab with Teresa. How their voices rise and fall in the sweet Italian cadences.

The summer, the months and weeks and days and hours must count for many things done when they are ended. I mustn’t write down what I want to do for then they won’t be done. Only everyday I must think toward their completion [MTP TS 57].

Louise Brownell Saunders (Susy Clemens’ old heart throb) wrote from Clinton, NY to ask a favor of Sam for her invalid friend, Miss Annie Wood of Utica. Wood was collecting books autographed by authors [MTP].