Friday, April 2, 1869

(Hartford) Up at 7.40. Wrote on Essay and on letters. Downtown to Watkinson library. Met Prof. Stowe. Home with James. Off for noon express train for New Haven. Train ran off track above Windsor. Several injured. Waited for it an hour and a half. Gov. Hawley and others on cars. Finished letter to Fred. Mailed it at New Haven. Called at Jarman's, on Keep and Richards, and took tea at Rev. E. L. Clark's. Raining hard in evening. Called on May Bacon in evening. Long talk with her about Gray. Off for New York by 11pm boat. Wrote Gray. Retired at 11.45. Sent six S. S. letters and two others.