November 19 or 20 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to cousin Emma Parish.

“Susie? Susie resembles us both. She has her mother’s personal comeliness & her father’s sweetness of disposition. When she gets in a fury & breaks furniture, that is a merit all her own—not inherited—at least only in a general way. I break a good deal of furniture, but it is only to see how it is made” [MTL 6: 268]. Note: Sam is not totally in jest here; Susy suffered (or the family did) from temper tantrums.