May 16 Sunday – In Hartford Sam finished his last letter of the previous day to Livy. He walked to the post office, open until 9 PM, bought four editions of Appleton’s Journal which serialized a story by Victor Hugo; then called on Billy Gross, a bookseller; forgot and left his magazines; went to the photographers and ordered pictures of himself from a negative; rushed back to Gross’ and got his magazines; and somehow had switched umbrellas with a man who he then bumped into. (Sam’s telling of this process is a lot funnier than a paraphrase) [MTL 3: 236-8].