Cable read Parson Jones before the Young Girl’s Club, & scored a rattling victory. They have made it the talk of Hartford. The Warners are gathering a crowd for tonight, & when Cable is through with them his stock will be away up, & the memory of his defeat will be sponged out & forgotten. He knows how to read—there ain’t no question about it.

Mrs. Clemens is just about without strength—that is the amount of it; she will not be on her feet for goodness knows how long. Improvement not really perceptible; she is fallen away to skin and bone. I am uneasy & bothered.