October 30 Saturday – Sam arrived in Pittsburgh in the afternoon, for his Nov. 1 lecture. He was the guest of honor at a banquet at McGinley’s Dining Saloon, on Wood Street, given by the lecture committee of the Mercantile Library Association [MTL 3: 382n2]. Lorch says it was an “oyster supper” [105].

Sam began a letter to Livy at 11 P.M. He wrote that he went to Steubenville, Ohio to “give those people a taste of my quality,” but he saw no posters announcing him. No one showed, Sam wrote, except the janitor and he didn’t pay, so Sam “closed the lecture.”

“Around the World – Letter no. 2” appeared in the Buffalo Express [McCullough 78].