February 25 Friday – Sam gave a reading at Twichell’s Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford. He wrote of this reading in his Feb. 27 letter to Howells:

“…the thing that went best of all was Uncle Remus’s Tar Baby” [MTLP 394-5].

Sam also wrote from Hartford to Charles Perkins asking if he had “Mills’s agreement for Colorado.” This was a contract for Kaolatype work. Sam requested a copy [MTP].

Worden & Co. telegraphed Sam: “ Bought for your account one hundred Mo Pac Ninety six and three quarters” [MTP]. Note: Missouri Pacific at 96 & 3/4.

February 25–27 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Karl Gerhardt about a book and the “Probable Expenses” the Gerhardts would face in traveling to Paris, France; Sam estimated $62.30 [MTP].