November 7 Friday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Will Bowen. Will’s wife of sixteen years had died and Sam had received the news in London. He told Will of his plan to start back to New York the next day, and invited Will to visit them in Hartford after their home was done in May. “We will talk over old times and tell my wife about them” [MTL 5: 472].

In the evening, Sam left Hartford for New York [MTL 5: 474n5]. He stayed the night at Dan Slote’s house, 110 East Fifty-fifth Street, where Dan’s wife sewed a button on Sam’s shirt [MTL 5: 476n2].