July 26 Tuesday – Jean Clemens’ seventh birthday. (See July 24 entry.)

In New York City at the St. James Hotel, Sam wrote to Livy:

Livy darling. I have finished up what I had to do here, & shall start to Hartford at 4.30. Charley [Webster] is a constant sufferer from his neuralgia, but has lately found a doctor who gives him several hours’ relief per day.

Sam also compared General George B. McClellan’s memoirs with those of Metternich’s, which he’d read on the train [LLMT 249]. Note: It’s unclear how long Sam was in Hartford, though he was back in Elmira on Aug. 3. Edward H. House and Koto had been housesitting Sam’s Hartford home; after six weeks, House moved to the George Warners [MTNJ 3: 304]. Sam may have seen to the move and met with Whitmore and others the next day. In a letter to his brother on Sept. 7, Sam mentioned this time as when he “woke up…to find that there was no more system in the office than there is in a nursery without a nurse.”