October 1 Saturday – Sam’s article, “At the President’s Reception,” which had appeared in the October issue of the Galaxy, was printed in the Buffalo Express [McCullough 229].

Sometime before Oct. 4, Sam and Livy traveled to Fredonia to visit Sam’s family for a week—a trip that had been planned since mid-June, but which had been delayed by the deaths of Jervis Langdon on Aug. 6 and Emma Nye on Sept. 29.