February 16 Saturday – The Clemenses attended a matinee performance of Wagner’s opera, Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York [MTNJ 3: 449n138]. Sam may have attended a Yale alumni dinner at Delmonico’s in the evening [Feb. 14 to Whitmore].

Henry Loomis Nelson wrote to thank Sam. On Feb.13 he asked for a copy of Sam’s speech before Congress, and evidently Sam had sent it. Nelson’s letter is mostly illegible but he does mention Twichell and Thomas Hooker [MTP].