March 13 Saturday – In Hartford, Sam wrote at midnight on Mar. 12-13, again to Livy. “Had a really pleasant time at Mrs. Hooker’s last night, Twichell & I” [MTL 3: 173].
He also wrote a short note to Horatio C. King and John R. Howard of Beecher’s Plymouth Church, declining their offer to lecture in New York, informing them that it was too late since “he must make ready for a short visit to California.”
Sam also wrote to Mary Mason Fairbanks, asking for a better title for his book than “The New Pilgrim’s Progress” [168-9]. Sam had read 90 pages of proof for Innocents Abroad before leaving for Boston in the evening with Nasby [179n1].