April 12 Monday – In Hartford Sam responded to Howells’ Apr. 11 letter:

Good — it’s all right. We were afraid you had escaped to Boston….Well, I shall be down Friday evening, & will look in on you Saturday morning, & we will arrange to visit there [MTHL 2: 553].

Sam also mentioned he’d spent part of the afternoon with Twichell at the Murray Hill Hotel on “yesterday week,” or on Sunday, Apr. 4, which would have been on their return trip from West Point.

Sam also wrote a one-liner to Webster: “never mind about that sofa.” Sam had procured the address of the furniture man [MTP].