The flag is still flying at half mast for poor Capt. Finegan whose portrait you may have seen in the Post. I knew him well: he was president or some officer of the Guild, a very gay clever, very handsome boy.

25 June 1915. Letter from John Sampson, University Librarian, to his wife. [Sampson Archive SP8/1/2/10/42]. This week’s war: 47.