July 15 Friday – At the Wolcott Hotel, 31 Street and Fifth Ave. N.Y. He wrote his thanks to Edward Eugene Loomis, vice president of the Delaware & Lackawanna R.R., husband to Julie Langdon Loomis:

Dear Edward—(If I may have that privilege with Jean), I do not know how to thank you enough for the peace & comfort & the inestimable privacy of that car—a benefaction beyond price to us in these days when exposure to the curious & the stranger in the nakedness of our sorrow is so hard to bear. We are deeply grateful: if there were stronger words I would find them & use them. And it would not be possible for any one to be more grateful than I am for that long procession of watchful kindnesses on your part which began at Quarantine & made our complex & difficult way simple & care-free for us from that moment until the parting on the dock an hour ago. I wish I could say it as strongly as I feel it. You who can do things, cannot know the full measure of such helps to those who are born incapable.

Our best love to you & Julie & aūf boldiges Wiedersehen.

There have necessarily been many expenses, but Charley will tell me what they are [MTP].

Hill gives this the day that Isabel Lyon arrived in Lee, Mass. [96].

Charles J. Langdon sent Sam a copy of Twichell’s funeral service. At the top of the first page, Sam wrote a paragraph, similar to that of his NB entry of July 14:

“Said over the coffin of Livy Clemens in the house of her childhood, by the same voice which in the same room & in the same spot had joined us in marriage 34 years before. / SLC” [MTP].

Wayne MacVeagh in Byrn Mawr, Pa. Wrote a letter of condolence to Sam [MTP].

Henry Loomis Nelson, now a professor at Williams College, Willamstown, Mass. wrote a letter of condolence to Sam [MTP].

Mary S. Smith (Mrs. George Gregory Smith) wrote from Florence asking Miss Lyon to send a few lines and let them know how he and the girls were doing—she couldn’t help but be anxious [MTP].