August 31 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to his sister Pamela A. Moffett:

“We’re getting along tolerably well. Mother is here, & Miss Emma Nye. Livy cannot sleep, since her father’s death—but I give her a narcotic every night & make her.”

Sam was writing under contract to deliver the new book, which would be named Roughing It, “as early as 1 of January next.” Emma Nye was a schoolmate and longtime friend of Livy’s, who had traveled from Aiken, South Carolina for a visit [MTL 4: 186].