May 1 Thursday – Sam wrote a short note from Hartford to Livy in Elmira. Sam asked if she was well because he’d only had two letters since she left and he figured he’d written fifteen or sixteen [MTL 5: 360]. Sam often exaggerated; Livy had only been gone a week.

Sam signed a receipt dated May 1, 1873:

“Received of Am Pub C six hundred & forty one 72/100” [copy of original, Stowe-Day Library, Hartford].

Elisha Bliss sent a statement of sales for RI & IA from Mar 1 to May 1, 1873, enclosing check for $1,141.72.