December 15 Thursday – Henry Clay Trumbull for Philadelphia Sunday School wrote: “I am so glad you can come on the 21st. I want a few friends to come in and see you that evening” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote about the typesetter and that he’d seen William Payton on it. There were obstacles and a continuous test had not been made. He would come to Hartford next Wednesday with another group of interested investors and newspaper men [MTP].

Charles W. Stoddard wrote from Honolulu, thanking for the “jolly letter.” He liked it there “very much.” He was now writing editorials and a story a year [MTP]. Note: very difficult handwriting.