February 13 Friday – Sam wrote from Hartford to William E. Baille, a passenger on the Parthia with Sam in January. He’d received a note from fellow passengers: Samuel Morrin who was “home & happy, in Montreal”; and thought that Rev. Mr. Dunn should be in California by this time. Baille evidently invited Sam to lecture somewhere in Canada [MTL 6: 30-1].

Sam also wrote to Charles Kingsley, canon of Westminster, inviting him to stay in Hartford on Kingsley’s American and Canadian lecture tour [MTL 6: 32n1].

Sam also wrote to Louise Chandler Moulton, who had favorably reviewed RI in her New York Tribune literary column. Sam sent a picture of “Modoc” (Susy) with her mass of curly hair [MTL 6: 33].

Sam wrote a short note to James Redpath asking him to be at the Wilkie Collins dinner [MTP].