January 25 Thursday – In Boston at Annie Fields’ home, Sam wrote to Livy.

I had to turn out at 9 this morning & go down town & attend to a matter of business which kept me till 2: then I went to the theatre & talked; left there at 4 & been running and busy ever since.

Good-bye, my dear darling, it is 15 minutes to dinner & I’m not dressed yet. I have a reception to-night & will be out very late at that place & at Irving’s theatre where I have a box. I wish you were all here. / Saml..[MTP, not in LLMT].

Note: This may have been at the Boston Museum; the reception is not specified, nor is the performance Sam saw at Irving’s theatre. Sam’s talk at the theatre until 4 p.m. is listed in Fatout as Authors Readings, text not supplied [MT Speaking 661]. A check of the Boston Daily Globe for this period came up empty. Sam’s notebook previewed this reading as for the poor: “Chairman of Women’s Press Association, Mrs. Winslow & Julia Ward Howe are getting it up. It is distinctly conditional. I asked for third place on the program — as usual — for after that, the people begin to die” [NB 33 TS 47].