August 5 Wednesday – From Sam’s Aug. 6 to Livy for this day:

I sat in the Lotos Club this afternoon & saw the procession pass on its way to City Hall with Gen. Grant’s body. It was very grand & impressive…The procession on the day of the funeral will be a memorable spectacle & I shall be glad to be here, since the General must be buried. I wish you were with me; & at the same time I don’t wish it, since it would involve a couple of exhausting railway journeys [MTP].

Lucia Booth wrote from Cleveland, a begging letter [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Poor woman wants $100”