June 15 Tuesday – John Russell Young had resigned from the New York Tribune, and Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) took on Young’s duties in mid-May 1869. Sam wrote from New York to Reid. Sam thanked Reid for “that paragraph this morning about Memphis,” which was a spur to the city of Memphis, Tennessee to make payment on street paving work for which Jervis Langdon was owed $500,000 [MTL 3: 264-5].