September 13 Monday – In Hartford Sam wrote to the Staff of the Hartford Courant asking for his paper delivery to be changed from Newport to Hartford [MTL 6: 532].

Sam also wrote to W.D. McJilton, a clerk in the Dept. of the Interior, whom he’d met on vacation in Rhode Island. In jest, McJilton had forwarded a letter from S.W. Clements asking for an increase in a government pension, as he could not wear an artificial leg. Sam responded:

My Dear Mr. McJilton: / I have examined my legs & find that no part of Mr. C’.s communication fits me except the closing remark—to wit: “i never could war an artificial leg.” Evidently I am not the man. Therefore please give the pension to the other fellow—if you can find out where he lives [MTL 6: 532-3].