March 31 Saturday – In Hartford, Sam typed a letter to Charles Webster, conveying Livy’s apologies for not saying a proper goodbye to Annie after the opera in New York. Sam wrote that the “type setter company are going to have a meeting next week, April 4th. I shall try to be present at it, but as that is going to be a particularly busy day with me I may possibly fail.” This was the date Sam and Warner had set for Cable to give his “Creole Women” reading at Unity Hall in Hartford. Sam also inquired of Kate Lampton, another cousin who was seeking employment copying or typing. Would Charley ask Mr. Whitford?

“YOUR AUNT LIVY IS SUFFERING HORRIBLY WITH QUINSY [inflammation of the tonsils], WHICH MAKES SLEEPING AND SPEAKING IMPOSSIBLE, BUT WE ARE EXPECTING IT TO BREAK TODAY, AND THEN RELIEF WILL COME” [MTBus 213].

A statement from Worden & Co., New York, (stock brokers) shows a balance of $4,017.72; shows balance Feb. 28 $3,997.08; paid interest this day $20.64 [MTP].

Christian Tauchnitz, Jr. wrote to thank him for his “kind letter and for the copies of ‘Sketches’ and ‘The Gilded Age’ which came safely..” He’d arranged with Chatto to pay £85 for LM [MTP].