October 6 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Elisabeth Fairchild, wife of Charles Fairchild, neighbors of the Howellses in Belmont, Mass. A dog of Sam’s had been killed, perhaps chasing a carriage or a horse. The dog was named Rab, after Dr. John Brown’s famous book. Another “pup of Rab’s exact breed” was wanted.

“No, indeed, poor Rab was an expense to nobody…His soul is stainless, both of the crime and the intent. The three servants who only had to feed & pet Rab, were inconsolable over his loss; none but the coachman & the gardener desired his departure. It was these whom he kept busy dragging him away from vehicles” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote to Sam: “All right. I will see Munn & Co about that brass business. I have written to Rants [?] to have those specimen sheets finished up at once” [MTP].