March 15 Sunday – In Boston, William Dean Howells wrote to Sam:

I sent you the play [The American Claimant] on Friday, and today I have mailed you the little book of Swedenborg’s which I spoke of [Heaven and Hell]. I think you’ll find it very amusing. Some things are entirely grotesque, but there are gleams of probability, too. We had, as we always do at your house, a handsome time, but too short for the things I wanted to say. I hope you have made up your sleep since we left, and that the fonograf is behaving [MTHL 2: 639]. Note: Emanuel Swedenborg’s 1858 book is listed in Gribben 678.