March 10 Friday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Orion. Sam reported that he had sent 160 pages of manuscript out to be copied and would ship them to Elisha Bliss. Bliss had offered to find a storage place for Sam and Livy’s furniture, which Sam wrote would not be needed:

“…for at least 2 years—I mean to take my time in building a house & build it right—even if it does cost 25 per cent more.” Sam also asked Orion to: “…sit down right away and torture your memory & write down in minute detail every fact & exploit in the desperado Slade’s life that we heard on the Overland…I want to make up a telling chapter from it…” [MTL 4: 348].