May 10 Wednesday – The CBR arrived in Memphis, Tenn., early in the morning. The time of 2 days 20 hours and 38 minutes out of New Orleans—even with the delay at Natchez, was the fastest time since the famous race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez [Loges 6]. Sam recorded that he noticed “several sheds were blown down” from the storm, “& the hail stones were nearly 3 inches in circumf. Unusual for this latitude” [MTNJ 2: 563]. Sam spent most of his time aboard in the pilot house, where he recorded the wartime stories of Horace Bixby and George Ritchie [Loges 6]. “Left Memphis 10 AM” [MTNJ 2: 476].

Joe Twichell wrote from Hartford

      I suppose you have heard from Livy how the lightnings of my peculiar sort of luck has struck me again, and this time from a most unexpected quarter. In your neighbor Case was the last man, on Asylum Hill anyhow, that I should have thought would treat me so—the very last. I hardly know what to make of it. However, I will try to make the dear old gentleman glad of his venture.

      And I suppose you have heard, too, of what Livy is up to, in sending Julie along with me. I can’t begin to tell, and she will never know, what gratitude Harmony and I are overflowing with, for her generosity. For to tell the truth, Mark, the prospect of a three months campaign in foreign parts with Mr Case and party, was not altogether blissful,—you can understand why [MTP]. Note: Newton Case, Sam’s neighbor, was on the board of American Publishing Co. See May 8 entry of Joe’s journal.