December 14 Friday – In Hartford, Sam inscribed 1601, Conversation As It Was By the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors to George Iles (1852-1942), American author and editor in Montreal. “Dear Iles— I beg a thousand pardons, but I had forgotten all about it. / . Truly Yours / S L C. / Dec 14/83” [MTP].
Livy invited the Aldriches and the Howellses for the weekend of Jan. 5 to meet some fifty of their Hartford friends and contacts [MTHL 2: 465n2].
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