February 13 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Mary Mason Fairbanks, apologizing for not being able to visit during his “most detestable lecture campaign that ever was—a campaign which was one eternal worry with contriving new lectures & being dissatisfied with them.” Sam liked yanking the chains of his favorite females. “I killed a man this morning. He asked me when My book was coming out.” Sam wrote that Livy and he had Alice and Clara Spaulding, Livy’s girlhood friends, staying with them, and also Rachel Brooks Gleason (1829-1909) and Silas O. Gleason (1818-1899), owners of the Elmira Water Cure [MTL 5: 43-5].

Sam also wrote to James Redpath:

“If you could get that N.Y. Tribune notice of my lecture copied in full into one or two of the biggest Boston papers it would be the next best thing to achieving a Boston triumph” [MTL 5: 45].