October 22 Thursday – Gribben writes that Sam discovered the book The History of a Slave (not further identified) in the London Library [315; NB 39 TS 32]. Also found, Sir Basil Home Thomson’s The Diversions of a Prime Minister (1894) [702; NB 39 TS 12]. Sam also noted he’d withdrawn a copy of William Knighton’s The Private Life of an Eastern King, etc. from the London Library [Ibid.]. See also Jan. 21. He also checked out Travels of Two Mohammedans Through India and China in the Ninth Century (author unidentified) [Ibid.]

Sam’s notebook contains a title this date for John Robert Seeley’s The Expansion of England; Two Courses of Lectures (1883) [Gribben 620; NB 39 TS 12].

Livy wrote to Alice H. Day

Ever since your letter came I have been trying to write and say when I could see you, but — Alice dear, I am sure you will understand when I say that I am afraid I cannot see you at all. I long in many ways to see you & hear you talk of Susy & yet — I cannot. I had looked forward with so much pleasure to our all being together again here at this time, your girls & our girls and now my world is dark. I cannot find Susy & I cannot find the light. [Livy also expressed that few knew how much Susy meant to her; that the 25 letters from Susy during the year were more like love letters than the sort one would receive from a daughter] [MTP].