May 14 Friday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Livy:

“Twichell & I, & another preacher or two, & the editor of the ‘Post’ are to take tea—with Mr. Henry Clay Trumbull, this evening, but you can’t go, on account of that sarcasm.”

The Hartford Evening Post editor was Isaac Hill Bromley (1833-1898). The Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull (1830-1903) brother of James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), local historian. Sam wrote that two different printing houses were to print 10,000 copies each of Innocents Abroad. Sam hoped “something would turn up to make that fearful trip” to California “entirely useless & unnecessary” [MTL 3: 227-30].

May 14 and 17 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to James Redpath concerning the printing of a circular for the upcoming lecture season [MTL 3: 227].