March 21 Thursday – The Bermudian docked in N.Y.C.  Sam returned home to  21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. and sent a telegram to Lilian W. Aldrich in Boston:

“I have just learned to-night with the deepest sorrow of your heavy bereavement & I tender the heartfelt sympathy of an old friend who always loved him, & who would comfort you if any words of his could do it” [MTP].

Lilian W. Aldrich wrote to Sam from Boston after the loss of her husband. “We have been kinsmen through many years in affection—now the tie binds closes through grief. You and I know the appalling isolation that closes about us when all that really made our life is taken from us…” [MTP].

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Ach Gott. Once more I am in my own room, in my own bed, and no one could be gratefuller. Today the first news we heard upon our arrival was the death of Mr. Aldrich [MTP TS 41-42].

George H. Mifflin sent a telegram to George Harvey: “Please convey to Mr Clemens, Mrs Aldrichs, Hope that he will be able to serve as honorary pallbearer tomorrow noon arlington street church” [MTP].