November 12 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to James Fraser Glück, a Buffalo lawyer and rare book collector, who had written asking Sam to donate the original manuscript of Huck Finn to the Buffalo Library [MTP]. Note: this is the half that survived and was re-discovered in early 1991.

Sam also wrote a short note to Benjamin H. Ticknor, seeking the original MS of P&P for Glück. “He wants to glass-case it in the great Buffalo Library” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Orion, letter not extant but referred to in Orion’s Nov. 17 reply.

James F. Glück wrote from Buffalo to thank Sam for sending the HF MS. He then asked for the LM MS, no matter the “shabby condition” [MTP].

William Tecumseh Sherman referred to Sam a letter from H.B.Taliferro, who wanted the agency for sales of Grant’s Memoirs in Harrisburg, La. [MTP].