October 13 Friday – Sam and Charles Langdon left Hartford. Sam was to begin his lecture tour in three days. He stopped in New York, where he stayed at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Charles Langdon and Sam and Edward L. Marsh (a cousin of Charles and Livy) played billiards and went to a popular variety show at the Olympic Theatre, “Humpty Dumpty” [MTL 4: 467n3; p469]. Note: Marsh attended Sam and Livy’s wedding [MTA 2: 251].