May 1 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Andrew Carnegie, sending apologies to Mrs. Carnegie:

Oh, I am mighty sorry I left Sunday evening, but I got homesick, & hadn’t anything to do & nothing to read [MTP]. Note: Sam spoke at the Max O’Rell (Paul Blouët) dinner in Boston the Sunday prior.

Sam also wrote to John Garth, journalist, of his thoughts about lecturing:

I avoid all such efforts, of late years, because I have found that I can’t frame an address which from my point of view is worth delivering. I have hung around the platform for twenty-four years now & it is high time for me to leave it & take to the chimney corner & stay there. And that is what I have contracted with myself to do… [MTP from Southern Literary Journal Fall,1987, p.13].

F. Schroeder, manufacturing confecturer, Hartford billed $4.80 for Dec 24 candies 4.80 “Madame: this is not the order of Decbr 23, which is paid, but a duplicate sent one day later.”; marked Paid, no date.

Neil Stalker, Fine Road and Track Harness, Horse Clothing, etc., Hartford, receipted $10.45 for Jan 18, 21, Feb 24, Mar 4, 11, 31, Apr 15 purchases: chamois, sponse, castile soap, comb, whip, repairs, etc.

Wm. B. Smith & Son, Flour, Grain, Feed, Baled and Loose Hay and Straw, Hartford, billed $38.40 for Apr 5, 14, 21, 28 purchases: meal, bran, oats, hay; Paid May 14 [all MTP].