October 29 Friday – Sam received an invitation from Lord Houghton to breakfast at the Brevoort House in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 2 at 9:30. Sam wrote back that he was leaving that day for Boston and would be there until Nov. 1, but would “gladly run down to New York & breakfast with you the next day” [MTL 6: 579]. Sam and Livy went to Cambridge and stayed with the Howellses.

October 29–31 Sunday – Sometime during his Boston visit with Howells, Sam probably met Oliver Wendell Holmes regarding the copyright petition. Sam promised Holmes a copy of Sketches, New and Old, which he sent about Nov. 3 [MTL 6: 580].