April 24 Tuesday – Sam and Livy wrote from Hartford to Charles Langdon of sickness, gaining strength, Olivia Lewis Langdon’s improved health, and Hartford’s “death-list” which had “reached the startling & disgraceful figure of 89” [MTP].

Sam also typed a letter to Whom it May Concern for Harry M. Clarke, recommending him as a type-writer copyist based on his work on LM. Sam was thoroughly impressed with revising copy done on the typewriter:

“MY COPYING IS ALWAYS DONE ON THE TYPE-WRITER, NOW, AND I SHALL NOT BE LIKELY TO EVER USE ANY OTHER SYSTEM” [MTP].

Sam also typed a letter to Charles Webster. Sam would soon send a letter from Ella Lampton containing a suggestion, probably about securing work for her daughter Kate, who wanted copy work. Livy was “improving all the time but is still confined to her bed” [MTP].

John Bellows wrote from Gloucester, England, replying to Sam’s of Apr. 11. He noted that the letter exceeded the “return after 10 days” on the envelope, for by that point “the mail steamer was 100 miles short of Queenstown!” He then wrote: “I send a copy of the dictionary by this mail, and am mortified to have failed in neatly shipping in NOM de PLUME and NOM de GUERRE under N.” He also enclosed The Life of John Roberts: (a Gloucestershire Farmer of the Time of Charles II) by Daniel Roberts, which he called “a quaint little book that will interest thee” [MTP].

Laurence Hutton wrote another nearly illegible note from NYC, sorry that Sam wasn’t coming [MTP].