October 8 Saturday – In Hartford, Grace King’s letter to her mother, written at the Clemens residence, continued:

The country here is all wild about the American board of Missions, which recently had a meeting to determine whether to preach to the savages probation or not. I don’t know whether you have kept up with it or not. Well after a long contest, they decided by a vote of 80, against 53 that there should be no probation after death, & that the ancestors of the savages had to burn, nolens volens. So Clemens came in with the paper this morning with “News! News! Hell’s elected by thirty majority.” The Charles Warners came in to tea. “Mark” got down in his usual position on the rug in front of the fire place & we all had a mighty nice time…[Bush 38].

Check #  Payee  Amount  [Notes]

3862  C.M. Darrow  188.81