June 10 Saturday – Sam wrote from Elmira to James Redpath & George L. Fall of the Boston Lyceum Lecture Bureau. Showing that he’d given the lecture circuit a great deal of thought from his past experiences. He wrote a list of seventeen items that he would or would not like for a lecture he’d written the day before. He was finally demanding higher prices, bigger towns and cities, and could name his preferences [MTL 4: 398-400].

Sam also wrote an announcement of his upcoming lectures to David Gray of the Buffalo Courier. Noting that there were many lectures on woman’s suffrage, and finding “Woman is less persecuted, and is held in a milder bondage than boys,” Sam’s new lecture, “An Appeal in behalf of Extending the Suffrage to Boys” [MTL 4: 402].