May 22 Thursday – Sam returned to Hartford, probably this day or the next.

Daniel Whitford wrote to Sam:

Senator Ives, House’s counsel, asked me if we would be ready to try the case in the autumn — I told him we would let him know when the time came. He said that from a financial point of view he didn’t think either side could afford to try it and that he thought it was a case that ought to be settled. Whitford added he would see what their ideas were about settlement] [MTP]. Eugene S. Ives (1859- ).