This invitation to the Days is the only one known to survive of those sent to an undetermined number of Hartford friends. Susan Warner, wife of Charles Dudley Warner, helped Olivia Clemens write some of the others. Another neighbor, Lilly Warner, informed her husband, George, who was away on business, that the occasion was the Clemenses’ “big long talked of party” and that it “went off well.” Unable to attend herself, she went over beforehand on Friday, 29 September, “to see the house” and the following day described the decorations: “No hot-house flowers—except on the sup. table (billiard room.) but wreaths & masses of wild things—clematis maple branches—golden rod— It was a dream of delight” (Lilly Warner to George Warner, 26 Sept 76, 30 Sept 76, both in CU-MARK).