November 6 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Hjalmar Boyesen of Ithaca, New York. Boyesen and family had been in Paris at the same time as the Clemens family. Sam listed the letters he had written Boyesen after being informed by a “fine young fellow” named Bacon that he hadn’t answered Boyesen’s letters. Sam wrote that their “unpacking room looks like a furniture hospital” [MTLE 4: 127].

Sam also wrote again, two notes, to William E. Strong, organizer of the Army Reunion in Chicago, accepting, “with great pleasure” the invitation to speak at the reunion banquet. Sam wrote he had “secured a room…at the Palmer house, & shall arrive there next Monday morning” [MTLE 4: 129].