April 18 Tuesday – Sam wrote a short note from Elmira to Orion. Sam directed him to leave the “Bull Story” alone until it appeared in the book and not to put it in the paper (American Publisher). Joe Goodman was visiting at Quarry Farm and would come up every day and write a novel, and read the California book critically. Sam didn’t want the story “Jack & Moses” used by the paper, but saved for possible lectures next winter [MTL 4: 378-9].

Sam also wrote a short note to Mary Mason Fairbanks that he “cannot see that she [Livy] has gained a single hair’s breadth in 30 days” [MTL 4: 379].