November 28–December 1 Thursday – In Florence Sam wrote to George H. Warner.

I have had more than one reminder, this last year, that I am not boss of this family, but have merely a 20 per cent vote in it. If in my letter to you I showed my remote willingness to have the neck of land severed & the river shortened [at the Hartford home], please consider those words recalled & an urgent protest against that sacrilege substituted; for I find that there were four votes in this family dead against it when I wrote my letter. Livy says I did not need to voice her in the matter at all, as you & she understood each other on that point long ago.

Sam concluded that they were unanimous against the cut. Daughter Jean had feared that filling up the low land meant that fill dirt would rise to the “level of the library windows” [MTP].