June 1 Wednesday – Joe Twichell wrote to Sam, pasting a Hartford Courant clipping from May 27 at the top of the first page (not in file).

Dear Mark: / So you see I set your eulogy—and a choice bit of criticism it is—circulating: for which Mr. Coggins might to be, and will be, a grateful man. But he deserves it. For in reading his article (which I shouldn’t have done but for you) I saw that every word you had said about it was true. I wonder if he is a young fellow just beginning to try his wings. If he is, there are certainly great possibilities in him. For a tyro his restraint seems to me most remarkable.

Joe also bragged that his son Dave had enlisted in the Army and was a sergeant of artillery. He gave news about a few Hartford people Sam knew—the Warner’s, Dr. Parker, and then remarked he was 60 years old last Friday. “I’m afraid it is now too late for me to think of amounting to much” [MTP]. Note: David Cushman Twichell (1874-1924).