September 23 Saturday – In New York on Webster & Co. letterhead, Sam wrote to daughter Clara.

Benny dear, whenever anybody in Hartford is ready to receive you, I think you’d better rush there and begin your visiting — for there’s no telling when we are going to leave America; so it will be well to get in your promised visits and make sure of them. I see no early prospect of our leaving for Europe. I am waiting patiently for my matters to run their unavoidable course of development. Don’t come down here by yourself, but come in some lady or gentleman’s charge; & give me notice.

Sam felt Clara wouldn’t enjoy being at “Governor” Fuller’s New Jersey farm longer than a day or so, and if she wished to accept their invitation that he would meet her in Madison, N.J. with Fuller. He cautioned her not to tell Livy about his cough, though disclosed Dr. Rice’s suggestions of Sept. 21, which had helped. Responding to her notice about playing the piano for an Elmira audience, he wished he could have been there. “I am happy in your happiness & success,” he wrote, and would deliver the news to the Charles Langdons who were in New York.