October 14 Saturday – Sam wrote to Worden & Co., letter not extant, referred to in Worden’s Oct. 16.

George W. Cable wrote: “Go to sleep. Go to sleep. The reason you forget what you was to pay for the ‘mammy’ is that you was not to pay anything. It was to be indicative of my desire to make you remember that you once walked up & down my little workshop with Osgood sitting here & me there and Mrs Cable yonder, and Uncle Remus on the other side; & that fellowship filled the place…” He disclosed that “Mammy” was Madame Baptiste [MTP].

James R. Osgood wrote: “I had four hours of populous solitude in the train the other morning, and I fell to reflecting in the Mississippi book and the ways and means of promoting its sale.” His idea was for Sam to give 20 lectures in “the 20 principal cities on that subject” [MTP].

Alexander & Green wrote twice, the first about the close of the Ogilvie suit, and the second about the Slote contract [MTP].