December 14 Friday – Livy and Sam began a letter to Olivia Lewis Langdon that Sam finished Dec. 19. Livy missed her mother and wished they might be together at Christmastime. Theodore Crane was taking some sort of “electricity” treatments, which left pain in his arm and a discouraged outlook, then shared by Sue Crane. Still, Sam reported that Theo was “doing comfortably well, & is slowly improving” [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall for Webster & Co. wrote to Sam about buying out Charles Webster. The situation had “reached a definite point. I will take the 9 A.M. train to-morrow for Hartford, and hope to see both you and Mr. Whetmore [sic]” [MTP].