March 20 Thursday † – In Hartford on or just after this date Sam, through Franklin G. Whitmore, answered G.G. Green’s Mar. 19 request “that he could not spare a moment for the work you propose” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to James R. Osgood asking him the custom for reserving “a couple of the choicest (communicating) rooms” in Paris, France or New York for the “first fortnight in June” — could it be done without making advance payment?

You know the human people. Won’t you drop them a note & ask them those questions for me? I & my wife & the three children are going over at that time, if God wills; but we shan’t know what His idea is, about it, for more than a month yet. He don’t seem to be as prompt as He used to be [MTP].

Note: Plans to move to Europe were already in the mix. Likely reasons are those Livy gave to her mother on Mar. 10.