November 15 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Pelham Ogle.

Your kind note arrives at the moment that I am taking the train for New York—for a business-sojourn there until the Christmas holidays…a note addressed to me at the Hotel Normandie will find me, & I will answer in person—almost surely: (the slight uncertainty is based upon the fact that New York is only headquarters for a month—my business is scattered, from Washington to Boston, & betwixt & between [MTP]. Note: Pelham Ogle’s note does not survive; he was “that English clergyman” of the Anglican Church, referred to Nov. 17 to Livy.

An envelope survives postmarked from Hartford on Nov. 16 and addressed to Sam’s mother, Jane Clemens. The lost letter was likely written this day [MTP].

Sam left for New York City, leaving the family at home, with Mrs. Langdon as a house guest. Sam stayed at the Normandie Hotel. The publication of Grant’s book was pending and there were still proofs to be read and many business matters to be attended to.

Kibbry Greening (Tabitha Quarles Greening “Puss”) wrote; the letter copy is now too faded to read [MTP].