March 10 Monday –Sam wrote from Hartford to Tom Hood and George Routledge & Sons in London. Sam wrote about the Jubilee Singers, who were about to appear in London. He had heard the singers once, probably on Jan. 28, 1872 when they came to Twichell’s church. He would hear them twice more in his next visit to England.

“I was reared in the South, & my father owned slaves, & I do not know when anything has moved me as did the plaintive melodies of the Jubilee Singers” [MTL 5: 315].

Sam’s letter dated Mar. 7, “Foster’s Case,” was published in the New York Tribune.

“I have read the Foster petitions in Thursday’s Tribune. The lawyers’ opinions do not disturb me, because I know that those same gentlemen could make as able an argument in favor of Judas Iscariot, which is a great deal for me to say, for I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper” [Fatout, MT Speaks 75].