December 23 Friday – Livy wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster about shipping Christmas gifts and packages shipped. She added that Sam was gone [MTBus 181]. He returned later this day from Philadelphia since he sent an unidentified person this aphorism: “Never put off till tomorrow what can be done day after tomorrow just as well” [MTP].

Worden, Webb & Co. wrote to advise they’d purchased 100 shares of W. U. at 78 & 5/8 [MTP]. Note: likely Western Union.