May 7 Friday – Before leaving West Point, Sam telegrammed Howells, asking him to answer at Hartford whether he should arrive in Boston the next day or on Sunday, May 9 [MTHL 2:557]. Twichell’s journal fixes their visit as May 5-7. Howells sent a telegram to Sam asking him to come Saturday, May 8 and bring Susy.  Sam wrote of it in his May 10 to Livy, and said it “never reached our house at all, I suppose,” which infers that Sam was back in Hartford on this day. He expected to go to Boston on Monday, May 10 as planned, and did not get the word to come sooner. See May 3 entry. Sam and Joe Twichell left West Point and returned to Hartford.