1Alice Hooker Day (1847–1928) was the daughter of John and Isabella Beecher Hooker (26 Feb 1876 to Conway, n. 2). She had married attorney and businessman John Calvin Day (1835–99) in 1869 (26 and 27 Jan 1869 to OLL, L3, 81 n. 8). This invitation to the Clemenses’ party on Friday, 29 September, is the only one known to survive of those sent to an undetermined number of their 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.” Unable to attend herself, she went over beforehand “to see the house,” and the following day reported that it “went off well” and 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 1876 and 30 Sept 1876, CU-MARK).