February – In Hartford Sam enclosed S.R. Peale’s Jan. 31 letter to Charles J. Langdon, and asked him to return it to him and let him know what answer he should make to the request [MTP].

General Philip H. Sheridan delivered the manuscript of his memoirs to Webster & Co. Soon thereafter he wanted to revise it further, and sent for it, spending much of the spring working on it Sheridan’s work was set to issue Dec. 1, 1888 [New York Times, May 29, 1888 p.1 “THE GENERAL’S MEMOIRS.”].

Karl Gerhardt wrote to Sam (photo of statue — Nathan Hale? — enclosed) [MTP].