May 21 Saturday – Livy had invited the Whitmores for the evening to meet her brother, Charles Langdon, and his wife, Ida Clark Langdon, who were visiting from Elmira [MTP see May 18 entry].

Percy F. Sinnett wrote from Norwood-Adelaide, Australia to Sam because his father (d.1866) had been Sam’s friend and because he wanted to write, though ill. Fan letter [MTP]. File note: “see SLC to Sinnett, 24 July 1881, SLC to Austr. Public 24 July 1881; Sinnett to SLC 25 Oct 1881.”