March 26 Monday – Sam sent a telegram from Hartford to George W. Cable, verifying the upcoming lecture date as Apr. 4 on “Creole Women” while working in the Baltimore reading. Sam added that Livy was “out of danger” [MTP].

Sam also typed a letter to Karl & Hattie Gerhardt, welcoming their new baby, Olivia Gerhardt. Sam applauded Karl’s finishing seventh in a field of 60 in an art competition. Sam explained that the American Exchange in Europe would be able to handle the medallions that the Gerhardts wanted to ship to Hartford, “or an elephant or a dwelling house or anything you please” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote on several issues after receiving Sam’s of Mar. 23: He would “attend to all such letters as you speak of and let them down light” as they only wanted autographs. He enclosed a bill for opera expenses; an article on billiards; he’d found a man to fix Sam’s music box and enclosed his card; and strategy about the Paige typesetter, which Hamersley wrote was “perfected” [MTP].