December 3 Sunday – Sam spent the day in Homer, New York.  He wrote a laundry list of concerns to Livy, including loans to his Express partner, Josephus Larned; money to his mother; bills for shirts; directing that Margaret (the maid) should be given “the nightly care of the cubbie”; and another lecturer from Virginia City days, C.B. Plummer. Sam met an old Langdon family friend in Homer, Dr. George V.R. Merrill [MTL 4: 503-4,509n8].

John Henry Riley wrote from Wash DC: “Friend Clemens / I returned to Phila from California on the 23d ult. And remained there till over Thanksgiving Day, and then on the 1st inst came back here. I just missed your ev’g of lecture at the Academy of Music, Phila….” He obliquely asked for funds as he was almost out of money [MTP].