April 30 Saturday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Charles C. Converse, an attorney and son of a prominent Elmira music teacher, about a wrongful characterization of Rev. Thomas De Witt Talmage, (1832-1902) pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, in the May “Memoranda” of the Galaxy. Sam patched things up [MTL 4: 123].

The first part of “A Curious Dream” was printed in the Buffalo Express [Wilson 35; McCullough 186]. The sketch called attention to a neglected Buffalo cemetery. (See May 7 entry).