March 31 Monday – Sam read his first essay for the Hartford Monday Evening Club entitled “License of the Press” [Budd,“Collected” 1014]. Sam said, “The touchy Charles Reade can sue English newspapers and get verdicts; he would soon change his tactics here” [Gribben 572].

Sam’s article, “A Horrible Tale – Fearful Calamity in Forest Street” ran in the Hartford Courant [Camfield, bibliog.].

Frank Soulé wrote from San Francisco to thank Sam for his offer to “take charge of my poetic manuscripts. I did not intend, however…to burthen you with the arrangement and supervision which you so generously offer” [MTP].