 In Day's case, since he was an orphan, his cousin undertook a long correspondence detailing his cousin's work habits and social contacts.Say's father, a Connecticut grocer, asked to see the evidence against his son, and Greenough replied that he could not send "the great mass of evidence" through the mail, though the actual evidence against Say consisted of a few sentences of testimony that mentioned him.Say's mother wrote as well and indicated she felt that others of greater means like Lumbard were not being treated as harshly as her son