March 23 Thursday – Sam finished his Mar. 22 letter to daughter Jean:

In this ship they call you to meals with a bugle. When it is wandering about the far distance of the vessel it sounds quaint & sweet —

“O sweet & far from cliff & scar,

The horns of elfland faintly blowing.”

Sam drew a table chart with as many names of the sixteen who dined together as he could remember, and told Jean to tell Mamma “it is Mrs. W.H. Bishop.” He included, the young Mr. and Mrs. Wellborn, cousins of Laurence Hutton — “lovely people”, Mrs. Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and two Miss Smiths, Consul Brown and Mrs. Brown, Noyes Sr., young Noyes and Miss Noyes [MTP].