May 25 Tuesday – City of Hartford, John E. Higgins town clerk, receipted Sam $2.15 for dog license for “male dog name Jifi [?]” [MTP].

The Hartford Courant ran a short advertisement for Fatinitza, tickets to be sold May 27 for the comic opera to be performed May 28. See Sam’s purchase of one ticket on May 27 for the May 28 performance.

M.E. Harmon wrote from Oshkosh, Wis. to Sam, clipping of his poem “The Lorley” enclosed. He’d read Sam’s rendering of Die Lorelei in TA [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “O dreadful!”