February 6 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to C.L. Fleck thanking him for the honor from the “Philo Society” (unidentified) [MTP].

Sam finished the letter of Jan. 25 to Karl and Hattie Gerhardt. Sam ordered a letter of credit for the Gerhardts to continue his patronage of their training in Paris [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Edmund C. Stedman, responding to his letter of Jan. 26 sending a copy of his Lyrics and Idylls, with Other Poems (1879) in exchange for a complimentary copy of P&P. Sam thanked him for his “brief visit” which he said “was an event; & a strongly marked one” and added that he’d been ill,

“But if I couldn’t write, I have been able to read; & so I have enjoyed your poems, & with sincerest pleasure. And I found old friends among them—particularly among the war poems” [MTP].

Karl Gerhardt wrote to Sam and Livy, again praising their two “sweet” letters rec’d. He wrote that he would send the “reduced” copy of Mercury, the original being in Naples [MTP].