October 21 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Elisha Bliss about Mrs. Moulton’s proposed book of stories and her availability at Pomfret, Conn. Sam sent best wishes for Harte’s book, Gabriel Conroy, and his hope that they could make the play run 200 nights in New York [MTL 6: 260].

From Twichell’s journal:

Called on M.T. He had just come in from making a farewell call on Mr Stowe ( who was about? Setting out for Florida for the winter and discovered that he had had no cravat on.[ )] He did up a cravat in a sheet of paper, wrote a note saying “herewith receive a call from the rest of M T?” and sent the cravat by a reward over to Mrs. Stowe.

She immediately replied in a very witty note, telling Mark that he had discovered a great principle (“I knew I had principle about me somewhere” interpolated Mark, as he read the note aloud) viz the principle of making calls by installment and asking whether in extremis a man might not send his hat, coat, and boots and be otherwise excused [Yale, copy at MTP].