November 22 Tuesday – Sam wrote a short note from Buffalo to Elisha Bliss to send “this beggar” (unidentified) a book. Also: “Have instructed my brother get to Hartford with all convenient dispatch” [MTL 4: 247].

John Henry Riley wrote from Washington D.C. to Sam, enclosing a clipping from the Phila. Sunday Dispatch for Nov. 6, a humorous tale about a Coolie filling a kerosene lamp. Also one called “Obituary Drivel.” Riley wrote: “Yours of the 4th inst. was recd on the 11th, which is quick time from Buffalo….I had heard of the Innocent at Home before you wrote me of the interesting event. Let me congratulate you” [MTP]. Note: Sam’s of Nov. 4 not extant.