October 28 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Howells, sending him the hieroglyphic notes of his Oct. 26 political speech. It was his plan to “get the advantage of a bad memory.” Though Sam kept the notes in his pocket, he claimed he didn’t have to refer to them [MTLE 5: 186].

This was probably the evening Sam gave another political speech to the German Republican Meeting, Second ward, Hawley Club room, Hartford. The Courant’s account of the meeting ran the next day, but did not provide the day of the meeting.

Mary Thacher Higginson wrote a small card from West Newton, Mass. asking for his autograph for a Boston fair for the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children [MTP].