September 15 Monday – Livy wrote to her mother about the family’s plans to leave Onteora,

We begin to feel that our time here is very short as we expect to leave a week from tomorrow. We have enjoyed our summer exceedingly….Tomorrow morning quite a number of them are going. Mademoiselle [Susy’s French teacher] leaves us and Susy is through with her work for the present.

Orion Clemens began a letter to Sam he finished Sept. 16:

Ma fell in the yard, before 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon, and hurt her left leg by a bruise and strain, or sprain. I carried her bodily upstairs.The doctor was here twice. He thinks no bone is broken, but she cannot move her left leg. [Drs. Jenkins and Bancroft examined her] [MTP].