April 19? Tuesday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Orion Clemens. Sam had washed his hands of the Tennessee Land several times, and the property had caused a rift between him and Orion.

“As for the land, sell it at once & forever, if that Pittsburgh man sticks to his word. $50,000 is all it is worth, maybe” [MTL 4: 113].

“It is Orion’s duty to sell that land. If he lets it be sold for taxes, all his religion will not wipe out the sin” [MT Encyclopedia, Ensor 730]. Note: Their father had acquired the land in about 1830 and they’d been trying to sell it since the 1850s.