13 May 1880 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, correspondence cards: CU-MARK, UCCL 01803)

Private.
Dear Sir: I remember you well, & most pleasantly, too. Do you remember the night journey
in the stage
coach? I ask because last year, in an out-of-the-way place in Germany, I came across
a particularly seedy old fellow of about
sixty, who said he was along, that night, (he was on the box,) & that the horses ran
away & were making for a precipice when he seized the reins & saved our lives—then
he struck me
for ten dollars. I paid him, though I intimated that I thought he charged rather high.
The truth is, I did not believe that old
man. I did not believe there were any precipices on the road; I did not believe the
horses ran away;
I did not believe there were
any passengers along but you & me. Do you remember that man? I told him that if he
was with usⒶemendation, we probably saved his life. Then
I tried to collect——but this was a failure.
Do you remember him? I can’t call him to mind.
MS, correspondence cards, CU-MARK.
MicroML, reel 4.
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