April 28 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Lucius Fairchild, congratulating him on being named U.S. minister to Spain [Rees 8; MTLE 5: 88]. Sam related missing a visit with Fairchild’s brother Charles in Boston during their recent weeklong stay there. Sam enclosed a photograph of himself and recalled the “good times we had that day at St. Cloud & what a lively gang of young people we were!” during the balloon ride. Sam recalled Paris:

“Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, ‘Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?’ ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘last summer.’ I judge he spent his summer in Paris” [88].

Charles H. Phelps wrote to Sam, asking for some “real history” in his life [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Again——O my!—& from an editor, too. / Answered, no”