December 19 Saturday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Edward House about Grant’s Memoirs. “As I was expecting, the book has instantly taken literary rank at the summit of its class of literature” [MTP].

Alexander & Green per C.A. Seward sent a telegram: “Mrs G having made a formal demand upon the depository for the plaster cast to be followed by an action to obtain it unless the demand is complied with the matter has been adjourned to Tuesday noon / Counsel for the custodian have advised him to deliver the property at that date and he proposes to do so notify artist” [MTP].

Rollin M. Daggett wrote from San Diego: “In reply to your inquiry of the 9th instant, I have to say that I passed Mackay on the Yuma Desert. I had but a moment’s time with him. Hhe was on his way to some mines in Arizona, and has since gone to Mexico” [MTP].