April 22 Monday – In Elmira, Sam wrote to Charles Dudley Warner & Susan Warner.
The new baby flourishes, & groweth strong & comely apace. She keeps one cow “humping herself” to supply the bread of life for her—& Livy is relieved from duty. Langdon has no appetite, but is brisk & strong. His teeth don’t come—& neither does his language. Livy drives out a little, sews a little, walks a little—is getting along pretty satisfactorily [MTL 5: 79].
Bill paid to W.K. Holt for hay delivered $23.18 [MTP].
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