April 18 Sunday – Sam wrote from Cambridge to Livy and enclosed a poem from 11-year-old Winny Howells. Sam & Joe’s trip to Concord for the Apr. 19 centennial celebration was thwarted by packed trains. Sam had a bad case of indigestion, so the pair returned home and tried unsuccessfully to con Elinor Howells that the trip had been a success [MTL 6: 449].

Joe Twichell wrote from Hartford to advise he would not be in Concord the next day nor in Cambridge on Tuesday due to his return by early train for funerals for a Chinese boy and for “Old Mr. Root, A.C. Dunham’s father-in-law” He added a P.S. “Livy as in church today looking—oh my! Beautifully!! [MTP].

April 18 or 20 Tuesday – Sam met with John T. Raymond on one of these days [MTL 6: 475n2].