March 4 Saturday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Orion, answering his insistent request for an article for the monthly circular, American Publisher. Asking to be left out of the Publisher for a time, he wrote:

“I am endangering my reputation by writing too much—I want to get out of the public view for a while. I am nearly worn out. We shall go to Elmira ten days hence (if Livy can travel on a mattrass then,) & stay there till I have finished the California book—say three month.” Sam also wrote that he was getting out of The Galaxy because he wanted to focus on the “California book” [MTL 4: 341]