October 13 Thursday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Mary Mason Fairbanks. Mary’s daughter Alice (“Alie”) was engaged. Sam wanted Mary to visit. Charles Langdon had married Ida B. Clark on Oct. 12, but Sam was too busy to go and Livy was unable [MTL 4: 208-9].

Sam also wrote Elisha Bliss:

“I am driveling along tolerably fairly on the book [Roughing It]—getting off from 12 to 20 pages (MS.) a day. I am writing so carefully that I’ll never have to alter a sentence, I guess, but it is very slow work. I like it well, as far as I have got. The people will read it” [MTL 4: 210].