January 15 Saturday – Sam wrote after midnight from the Baggs Hotel in Utica, New York to Livy [Powers, MT A Life 280].

“We had a noble house to-night (Oh, it is bitter, bitter cold & blustery!)—the largest of the season, they believe, though they cannot tell till they count the tickets to-morrow.”

Sam also wrote his sister, Pamela. He’d sent money for her and Annie to come for his wedding, plus support money for his mother, whom he did not want making the trip during the winter.

“Hurry up, Pamela, you & Annie, & get to Elmira by the 24th or 25th if you can. I shall be there by the 22nd to remain.”

That evening he lectured (“Savages”) in Doolittle Hall, Oswego, New York. Sam’s story, “A Ghost Story – By the Witness,” was printed in the Buffalo Express [McCullough 134].