February 5 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Moncure Conway.

Only a mere P.S.—a single sentence to say this morning Springfield Republican has your talk upon Tennyson’s “Despair,” & that I have read it through twice, from the first word to the last, & that it is as beautiful as music,—& full-freighted with all the merits, virtues & charms of literary art: sound reasoning, true poetry, lofty thought, noble imagery; & all set forth with a grace of expression which is enchanting. Thank you heartily for writing it [MTP; Univ. of Nevada Library].

Arnold, Constable & Co, New York, billed $39 for seven slips (four line items), paid Feb. 8 [MTP].

Charles H. Clark for Hartford Courant wrote to Sam that he hadn’t written for the Springfield Republican “for many a year” and the paragraph about Frechette was not his [MTP].