May 24 Monday – Sam wrote from South Windsor, Conn. to Livy. He was visiting the Roe family at East Winsdor Hill, about eight miles from Hartford. Sam had known Azel Stevens Roe Jr., from his days out West. Roe Sr. (1798-1886) was a novelist. Roe Jr. had been a voice and music teacher in Virginia City in 1867, and a tutor in San Francisco in 1863. Sam included a note to Livy’s parents, asking them to bring Livy to New York City so he might see her before his planned trip to Elmira on June 10 [MTL 3: 249-53]. Note: Based on Livy’s numbering of Sam’s letters, there were five previous lost letters [MTL 3: 253n1].