April 16 Monday – Louise M. Madden wrote from Chicago for Sam’s autograph [MTP].

L..       Loisette for Loisettian School wrote to Sam that he was going to “reply to the unmemorial blackguards who beginning a few years ago with slight misrepresentation have advanced from my silence & forebearance to lies pure & simple” [MTP].

Lorettus S. Metcalf for Forum Magazine wrote to Sam that he would keep his “pages open all this month so as to be able to put the article into the June number” and “As a Yankee I am more pleased than I can tell you that this good work is to be done at last” [MTP]. Note: referring to Sam’s answer to Arnold.