September 20 Wednesday – Sam often wrote notes about what he called “mental telegraphy,” thinking about a person from years ago right before their letter arrived, or as in Twichell’s case in Germany, turning a corner and meeting a man from years before he’d just been talking about. Sam’s notebook:

“Livy says ‘I have no memory.’ My own thought but about myself last night” [MTNJ 2: 505].

Charles A. Dana wrote for the NY Sun, suggesting Sam take “some of the chapters of these four books and use them as independent articles in the way I propose?” [MTP].

David L. Grasmere wrote from NYC, with “personal” on the env., having rec’d Sam’s of the 14th declining to help. Would he not reconsider? [MTP].

Joe Twichell wrote, back home in Hartford to tell of the European trip with daughter Julie [MTP].