November 22 Saturday – Sam and Cable left Philadelphia and traveled to Brooklyn, where they gave two performances at the Academy of Music. The Brooklyn Eagle called it “The Literary Event of the Season” [p.5]. Henry Ward Beecher and Dean Sage and wife were in the audience. A Miss Copelin from St. Louis sent Sam a note and he went to see her. She was the daughter of a young girl he once knew. Miss Copelin was 21 and her mother was only fifteen when Sam knew her. “It made things seem a long time ago, & also made me feel very old & useless” [Nov. 23 to Clara Clemens, MTP].

The performance finished at 10 PM. Sage came behind the curtain afterward. Cardwell points out that Beecher was “a friend and patron of Cable’s,” as well as one of Pond’s main lecturing stars [22].

The reviews of the readings the next day were extremely positive [Eagle, Nov. 23, 1884 p.12].