January 22 Saturday – Sam and Livy returned to Hartford, Sam playing whist (probably with Irving Bacheller and others) while Livy rested in the “palace car” [Jan. 25 to Bacheller].

M.H. Bartlett of Avon Conn. wrote enclosing a draft of Whitmore’s after-Jan.22 about the loan with real estate security Bartlett sought for his “tower property.” Whitmore and Sam did not consider Bartlett’s summer house sufficient security for the $1,200 loan proposed. Bartlett would write Whitmore on Feb. 11 that he wasn’t able to give a mortgage on both properties and that he’d found a party who would loan $1,200 on just his summer house [MTP].