September 21 Tuesday – Sam wrote a short note from Buffalo to Henry M. Crane confirming his lecture in Rondout, New York on Jan. 12, 1870 [MTL 3: 353].

He also wrote to George E. Barnes, the editor and co-owner of the San Francisco Morning Call, who had hired and fired Sam in 1864. Sam introduced Charles Langdon, who would be leaving for a world trip and would go through San Francisco with Professor Darius R. Ford (b.1825), Livy’s old tutor [354-5].

Sam also wrote Elisha Bliss, commenting on Hubert Bancroft’s refusal to supply Bret Harte with a copy of Innocents Abroad for review. Bancroft was a book dealer and West Coast agent for the book [MTL 3: 355].

He also wrote to Silas S. Packard, declining to write another article for Packard’s Monthly [356].

He also wrote to George L. Hutchings, the chairman of the Clayonians for Newark [MTL 5: 684].