February 25 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Laurence Hutton with a duplicate to William M. Laffan. Lawrence Barrett would appear in a Hartford play Mar. 3 and 4, and Sam wrote they were trying to get him to stay with the family — would Hutton and Laffan come and spend those two days with them also? [MTP]. Note: See Susy’s diary Mar. 14 entry. Barrett revived the Italian romantic verse tragedy Francesca Da Rimini for three seasons, some 30 years after its first production; it was called “one of the most remarkable events in the history of the American stage” [Literary Criticism of English and American Authors vol. 7, ed. Charles Moulton 1904 p.766].