March 9 Monday – Sam inscribed a photograph of himself to Lillian W. Aldrich (Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich): “With regards not to be expressed in their full strength because of the overlooking eye of T.B” [MTL 6: 64]. See insert photo.

In Hartford, Sam also wrote an impatient note to Elisha Bliss asking him to send a copy of Roughing It to a humorist friend, Benjamin P. Shillaber, of Chelsea, Mass. [MTL 6: 64].