April 25 and 26 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Livy in Elmira.

Livy darling, as Warner says “The child is born, & his name is Mary Jane!” Which is to say, that just as Eliza called me to dinner I put the last touch on the chapter where Phil strikes the coal mine—so the book is really done,—all except the tedious work of correcting, dovetailing & revamping. A fearful load went off my mind with the discovery of that coal vein [MTL 5: 354].

Sam dined with Charles Dudley Warner [Letter to Livy, Apr. 26].