September 15 Thursday – Sam and Livy wrote from Buffalo to Frank Bliss & Frances T. French, congratulating them on marriage, and regretting that illness in the house prevented them from attending the wedding [MTL 4: 194].

Sam also wrote to the Postmaster of Virginia City, Montana Territory (Hezekiah L. Hosmer) asking for a newspaper from the day the desperado Jack Slade (Joseph Alfred Slade 1829?-1864) was hanged. Sam wanted material to include about Slade in Roughing It [MTL 4: 195-6].