May 8 Saturday – Sam wrote just after midnight from New York City to Livy, whom he missed already. He filled her in on activities since reaching the city. Sam wrote he was leaving for Hartford and would telegraph Bliss to leave any letters for him at his hotel, The Allyn House, and that he hoped to arrive there by 9 PM [MTL 3: 204-6]. Sam reached the hotel by 7:30 and wrote Livy at 9.

“That squib I wrote about the Wilson murder was in the New York Tribune this morning. Did my little business manager cut it out & preserve it?”

The piece was a humorous fictional account of a murder in Elmira. The victim in the story called the other antagonist every name in the book, but was received mildly, until he was called a member of the New York Legislature. Wilson then “shot him dead with an axe handle” [MTL 3: 208].

Sam’s letter to the editor, dated Apr. 29, “Remarkable Murder Trial” ran in the New York Tribune [Camfield, bibliog.].