October 28 Saturday – Sam was in Hartford staying with the Charles Dudley Warners [Oct. 27 to Elderkin].

October 28-31 Tuesday – Sometime during this period Sam wrote a letter from either Hartford or New York to Livy about Isa Carrington Cabell and Susan Warner.

Susy is daft upon that humbug — clean daft. Mrs. C. practices the coarsest tyrannies upon Susy [Warner] at her own table and they are submitted to with an unresenting meekness which makes one’s blood boil. Both Lilly Warner and I were present at these humiliating exhibitions. The woman is unspeakably ignorant and shallow and affected and false — and most transparently so [MTP]