December 11 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to his sister, Pamela Moffett, sending $25 for Christmas gifts for “Annie & her family.” Livy was “pretty thoroughly taxed” Sam wrote. “Jean is as fat as a watermelon, & just as sweet & good, & often just as wet” [MTLE 5: 224].

Sam purchased a second copy of Thomas Malory’s The Boy’s King Arthur [Gribben 448]. Note: since a copy was also purchased on Nov. 18, this may have been a Christmas gift.