March 12 Monday – Hartford taxes on real estate, insurance stock, bank stock, money loaned at interest and merchandise were due by Nov. 1, with the assessed valuation made public the following March. Sam’s valuation was published on this day at $66,650 [MTPO notes with Oct.16, 1876 to Perkins].

Chandos Fulton (1839-1904), Co-manager of the Park Theatre and Broadway Theatre (later Daly’s Theatre), wrote to Sam, having rec’d his card and “looked into matters, without any result as yet.” He asked about a plot Sam had discussed with him “one autumn afternoon last year at the St. James Hotel”—“Was that a fanciful carriage of your imagination”? Fulton encouraged Sam to come down for a matinee and he’d save him a box [MTP]. Note: Fulton also contributed to newspapers and magazines, and wrote plays and a history of the Democratic Party. He died after an operation.