March 17 Thursday – Wm. Hudner, Hartford merchant billed Sam $22 for Mar. 17; May $27, June $29.70 for undecipherable purchases [MTP].

Thomas A. Davis pastor (& cousin of R.R. Morris above) wrote from Trenton to ask Clemens for a donation of $125 [MTP].

Karl Gerhardt wrote from Paris, Hotel De Saxe to Sam and Livy. They’d arrived at 5 p.m. and were staying in this hotel as recommended by Mrs. Millet. The voyage was tedious as the sea was violent and they could not go on deck for the first seven days [MTP].