November 5 Saturday – Charles Culliford Boz Dickens (son of author) accepted the Clemenses offer to visit them with his family in Hartford on Nov. 10 [MTNJ 3: 341n125].

Sam’s notebook: Bal. Nov. 5, 10, 224.41 [MTNJ 3: 345].

William Mackay Laffan for N.Y. Sun wrote to Sam: “I fancy I will come up about Thursday when the place is fumigated after the election. When have you Dickens at your house? I see his is due there — in the papers” [MTP]. Note: the reference is to Charles Dickens’ son, Charles Culliford Boz Dickens.