June 28 Tuesday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore, answering Abel W. Fairbanks’ letter and request of June 21.

Please look in on the Receiver & then write old Fairbanks a note & tell him whether his papers are satisfactory or not. [¶] We leave the Valley this afternoon & ascend to the farm [MTP].

Note: this period at Quarry Farm began the major writing at on Connecticut Yankee, which resumed the completed first three chapters, read Nov. 11, 1886 at Governor’s Island in New York harbor. The result was a MS of all but chapter 10, this last being added in 1888. However, Sam wrote to Whitmore on July 6 that a “stubborn attack of dyspepsia” was preventing him from getting started on literary matters.