June 11 Saturday – Sam said goodbye to his West Point friends and returned to Hartford.

At Hartford Sam wrote to John Henton Carter (“Commodore Rollingpin”) of St. Louis, giving him permission to use “any published sketch of mine you choose,” but Sam added that he couldn’t “furnish anything new,” being “limited by existing contracts” [MTP].

June 11 or 12 Sunday – Sam returned to his family in Branford, Conn. He was there by Monday, June 13, when he and Livy traveled to Hartford to meet George W. Cable [Bickle 69].