April 5 Thursday – Sam introduced George W. Cable to the Saturday Morning Club, Hartford, at the home of Charles Perkins. Cable read “Posson Jones.” Richard Watson Gilder was among the guests [Bickle 97; Turner, MT & GWC 16-17]. Note: In this and a few other cases Sam’s young girls’ club met on days other than Saturday to accommodate speakers.

From the club reading, which Sam was elated with, they took a carriage to a lunch in Cable’s honor at the Hartford Club. That evening Cable wrote his wife Lucy of the gathering:

“It was the maddest, merriest three hours—the wittiest uproar that ever I heard in my life. It beat the Boston dinner of last fall and was without the grossness which hurt my ear there” [Turner, MT & GWC 18].

Sam handed Cable John C. Kinney’s “little check for” $125 for his Unity Hall reading of Apr. 4. Kinney was an editor on the Courant [19].