July 5 Friday – Sam was back home in Hartford by this date and packing up to leave Hartford’s summer heat for the Connecticut shore [MTL 5: 112]. Sam probably wrote Bret Harte before leaving Hartford, inviting him to New Saybrook, because Harte wrote back on July 6 [MTL 5: 118].

Bill paid to The Farmington Creamery Co., $8.80, for milk & cream deliveries made for July 5, 19, 26, [MTP].