October 18 Tuesday – Sam wrote from San Francisco to his brother Orion. Sam was out of work so asked his brother to “send the stock” (Hale & Norcross mining stock). Sam did continue receiving $12 for articles written for the Californian, but wrote only three of these [MTL 1: 320]. Sanford claims Sam wrote ten pieces in the Californian between Oct. 1 and Dec. 3 [254]. (See also, MTNJ 1: 650.) It was this period of two months or so that Sam wrote about “slinking” in and out of meals and his rooming house possessing only one dime and looking forward to being dunned by a bill collector on an old debt [RI, Ch 59].