February 15 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to James Hammond Trumbull, accepting membership in and an invitation to attend the Hartford Monday Evening Club on Feb. 17. According to Sam, Trumbull, a learned and educated man, “could swear in twenty-seven languages” [MTL 5: 297]. Members of the Club included Joseph R. Hawley, and Rev. Nathaniel J. Burton (1824-1887). The group was formed in 1869, as an elite, twenty-man discussion group. Members presented papers on issues of the day. They were allowed to invite one non-Hartford resident as a guest. [MTL 5: 56; Kaplan 146; Monday Evening Club, privately printed (1954)].