May 8 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Boston to Livy.

“Livy Darling, I grew so uneasy, before I reached Boston, that I determined to go back home unless I got news that you were better. I have just received your answering telegram, & am greatly relieved” [Note: Livy’s telegram to Boston suggests Sam spent at least one night there].

Sam learned from Osgood that they need not stay in Canada beyond May 14, and hoped to return by way of New York to see “one evening of the great billiard match & still get to Hartford as soon as if we came home by the old regular route” [MTP].