August 3 Monday – In Redding, Conn. Sam wrote to Dorothy Sturgis.

Dear Dorothy: /Good! Then you will be very welcome in September, & your journey from Boston will not be a heavy one. We will tell you how to come, & what trains to take.

And so this is hoping you can come September 18 , & stay till Sept. 25 . Francesca M. A., (Member of the Aquarium) will arrive Sept. 20th or 21st from England. Other guests will arrive on the 26th.

I enclose a photo made a few days ago, in the loggia (where I am writing this[)]. The cat is “Tammany,” the pride of the place. You will notice that I have become extraordinarily humpshouldered. The doctors say it will never diminish, but will increase. They say it is due to bad circulation, lack of exercise, & excessive smoking. I do not care. It is a good enough shape, & I like it. / Lovingly … [MTP; MTAq 197-8].

Emilie R. Rogers (Mrs. H.H. Rogers) wrote to Sam. She was leaving for the mountains later this day but hoped Sam could find his way to Fairview soon [MTHHR 649-50].

W.R. Green wrote in an aged scrawl from St. Louis. Much of the letter is illegible, but recalled old times and his appreciation for Sam’s account of Hannibal days in his Autobiography [MTP].