June 12 Friday – In Hartford, Sam wrote to his sister, Pamela Moffett, explaining against her admonitions why he hadn’t written her.

Correspondence is the despair of my life. Suppose you had to have 15 teeth pulled every day; & every time you lost 3 days…

I have been to New York 3 days on imperative business—& at this table I must stick this entire day & answer the accumulation of letters—adding a deep, strong, heartfelt curse to each & every one of them except this one [MTP].

From Livy’s diary:

Yesterday the children and I decorated the school room with wild flowers, grasses and ferns for today’s examination. We made the room exceedingly pretty, the children enjoyed so much the process of doing it. This morning Mrs. Geo. Warner, Daisy, Miss Price and Miss Corey came to the examination. All the lessons went very nicely I thought. The children were both examined in Arithmetic. Next Susy was examined in Geography, then Clara in United States History.—then Susy in United States History, Susy’s was a brief but very good synopsis of United S. H. from the earliest discoverers down to the Civil War—Clara’s was giving more particulars of the Civil War.

Supper tonight on the Ombra. Billiards evening—Mr. Robinson, Mr. Bunce, Mr. Whitmore and Sam Dunham came for billards [Salsbury 201].

Hawley, Goodrich & Co., Hartford, billed Sam $4.25 to adv. “cow for sale” 2.25; Daily Courant 1 quarter 2.00; paid July 9 [MTP].

W. Minor wrote from Nashville, “humorous story” enclosed. “Touch it with the humor of your prolific pen” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “O, hell!”

 Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote, having rec’d his of June 11. About the Paige typesetter and the Delaware people and W.A. Paton [MTP].