December 18 Sunday – In Florence Sam wrote to Arabel Moulton-Barrett, sole surviving sister of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in Jamaica. The Barrett family had long been associated with Jamaica, amassing a fortune from sugar plantations. Arabel evidently had requested a photograph of Sam.

Dear Madam: I am always going to get some of those things taken, & sometimes I even get so far as to do it, but they are soon gone, & then there is another interval of empty intention…I am very sorry [MTP]. Note: Eliz. Browning died in Florence in 1861.