May 11 Thursday – In New York at the Murray Hill Hotel, Sam wrote to Ida Langdon (Mrs. Charles J. Langdon) on Webster & Co. letterhead. After relating his communications with Livy upon arriving and seeing enough Hartford people at the hotel to call it a “suburb of Hartford,” Sam thanked her:

I sail at 10 Saturday morning, & am all ready, though my shirts ain’t; they are in the wash.

I don’t very greatly miss my visit to Hartford, for I was there last year, but I wouldn’t have missed my visit to Elmira for anything. It was an ideal visit. I learned to know every one of you better; I got closer to you all; got as near to you as I am to my own family, & I carry all of you away in my heart — & the Lord knows how grateful I am for this. I loved you all before, & dearly; but I did not half know any of you except Charley [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore, advising him to return the royalties to Pamela Moffett, Susan Crane, and Matthew Arnot [MTP].