July 27 Tuesday – Sam paid a July 17 bill from Estes & Lauriat, Boston publishers and book dealers for a five-volume set of Young Folks’ History of England (1879?) [Gribben 793].

Pamela Moffett wrote to Sam.

My dear Brother: / We all send warmest congratulations to you & Livy:—hope Mother and child will continue to do well. Dear Livy we have all felt so anxious about her. Ma was quite ill for two or three days…She and Sam and I are rusticating at Van Buren. Charley came out yesterday and brought your telegram.” She added a page or more about church conflicts there [MTP]. Note: Van Buren on Lake Erie.

Hartford City Guard per William C. Barber sent an engraved sheet informing him of honorary membership [MTP]