August 19 Monday – Sam wrote poetically from Hartford to Livy, still in Saybrook, Conn.

While this moon lasts it will be easy, on shipboard or on shore, to look up at the vague shapes in it & recall our last night on the verandah when they were our only witnesses. And as long as we are separated we can still regard the waxing & waning phases of this moon & commune with each other through her across the waste of seas, sending & receiving messages that shall ignore distance & count the accumulated meridians of longitude as nothing [MTL 5: 149].

Bill paid Flower & Hills, Hartford grocers $15 [MTP].

Sam left Hartford and arrived in New York, staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel.