February 26 Saturday – Sam & Livy wrote from Buffalo to Jervis Langdon.

Dear Father —It was to please me that Livy moved the wash-tubs, maybe—because I said “Let them be moved, Mrs. Clemens—I have hunted high & low & cannot find anything about the house to alter or improve, & it is entirely too bad—it is not showing proper respect to a father who pulls his house to pieces all the time—Move the washtubs, into the woodhouse, Madam, pile the wood in the stable & put the horse in the laundry—I tell you something must be altered quick, or your father won’t like it [MTL 4: 80].