October 28 Saturday – At Redman Farm, the summer home of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, in Ponkapog, Mass. Sam wrote to Alfred T. Waite.

Aldrich has given me that editorial, & I thank you cordially for preserving it for me all these years. As you know, there are qualities in it of heart & expression that lift it far & away above the customary realm of compliment & approval—& that I shall treasure it is a something which you would know without my saying it [MTP]. Note: At this time Waite was the Assistant Managing Editor for the Boston Herald.