March 22 Saturday – Sam purchased a small wedge of land along the eastern side of their lot and 40 feet on the south for $1,000, which increased his frontage on Farmington Avenue by twenty feet [MTL 5: 271n6; Salsbury 17].

Sam wrote from Hartford, declining an invitation to lecture from his former partner on the Buffalo Express, Josephus Larned, chairman of the Young Men’s Association Lecture Course [MTL 5: 320].