April 20 Saturday – In Hartford, Sam answered Samuel Moffett’s letter to Livy. The Moffetts were planning a trip east from San Francisco, and wanted to visit.

We are glad you are coming, & both of you will be welcome. I judge you will fetch along here just right to fit our dates. We shall begin to tear up the house, June 4, for the summer flight [to Elmira]; & we hope you can spend the preceding 7 days with us, arriving here May 28th [MTP]. Note. Pamela Moffett at this time was also on the West Coast, so “both of you” may have included Moffett’s wife or his mother.

Sam also wrote to Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Globe, letter not extant but referred to in Taylor’s Apr. 22 [MTP].

Lem Y. Ball wrote from Warren, Penn. to Sam on George Ball Clothier letterhead, asking for their carnival, “an autographic letter containing a short article from some of your writings” [MTP].