November 25 Monday – Sam wrote from Washington, D.C. to Charles H. Webb, sending a penciled draft of the first two acts of a play about the Quaker City trip. He also confessed his inability to find a sweetheart named “Pauline” (unknown) and asked to be remembered to her [MTL 2: 115].

Sam also wrote John Russell Young of the Tribune again, informing him that he was doing a bit of writing for the Herald, “impersonal, of course, I suppose,” meaning, without his byline [MTL 2: 115-6].

Sam also wrote to Jane Clemens  and family and family of his efforts to obtain a clerkship in the Patent Office for Orion. He confided his progress at becoming well known:

“Am pretty well known, now—intend to be better known. Am hob-nobbing with these old Generals & Senators & other humbugs for no good purpose” [MTL 2: 116-7].