June 4 Tuesday – In Hartford, Sam wrote John C. Kinney, editor of the Courant, declining an invitation as he was “already engaged for the Yale festivities at New Haven for that afternoon & evening” [MTP]. Note: the Yale event was an annual alumni banquet Sam would speak at on June 26, 1889.

Louise D. Sterling wrote from Ontario, Canada sending Sam some prayers, having read that Sam was “now subject to depression.” Sam wrote on the env., “Great Scott!” and also “Religious and poetic” [MTP].