July 15 Thursday – Sam went to Buffalo, New York and on to Cleveland to investigate and negotiate an interest in the Cleveland Herald with Abel Fairbanks. Note: Sam would purchase a third interest in The Buffalo Express. Jervis Langdon would loan Sam half of the $25,000 needed to purchase the interest. Sam had previously tried to acquire part ownership in the Cleveland Herald, since Mary Mason Fairbanks’ husband Abel was one of the owners. He’d also made similar efforts for the Hartford Courant, that city being the home of Sam’s agent Elisha Bliss and many influential contacts.

In Buffalo, Sam stayed at the Tifft House on Main Street. He would report on Prince Arthurs’ luncheon there a few weeks later [Reigstad 33].

Sam wrote several letters to Livy on this trip that have been lost [MTL 3: 290n1].