March 13 Monday – Back home in Cambridge Howells wrote thanking Sam for the visit [MTHL 1: 127].

Sam, still in Hartford, sent Howells his surreal sketch, “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut.” The dark story of a dwarf-conscience reflected Sam’s fixation with conscience and guilt. Sam had read the sketch at the Monday Evening Club On Jan. 24 [Wilson 101]. Sam told Howells to “correct it mercilessly.” Howells published the piece in the June edition of the Atlantic Monthly [MTLE 1: 29; Powers, MT A Life 386-7].