November 8 Wednesday – Election day – Sam telegraphed Howells that he’d “love to steal a while away from every cumbering care and while returns come in today lift up my voice & swear” [MTLE 1: 142]. Note: Sam parodied the first verse of a popular hymn by Phoebe Hinsdale Brown (1783-1861), one included in Henry Ward Beecher’s Plymouth Collection of Hymns: “I love to steal, awhile, away / From every cumbering care, / And spend the hours of setting day / In humble, grateful prayer.”

Bill paid $20.25 to Hydel & Cullen, Hartford mfg tin, copper, sheet-iron ware, stoves, gutters, &c. for stove and labor [MTP].