October 29 Sunday – Sam wrote to Robert D. Brain, letter not extant but referred to in Brain’s Oct. 30.

John Boyle O’Reilly for the Boston Pilot wrote to Sam: “Thank you many times, for remembering to send me that rare study of a time. I have enjoyed it even to spiritual [illegible word]” [MTP]. Note: O’Reilly was mentioned in Sam’s Nov. 4 to Howells as being present for the Summerset Club’s midnight dinner. From 1870-6 he was the editor of the Boston Pilot and thereafter part owner. The “rare study of a time” may have been 1601.