September 25 Wednesday – Sam attended a performance of Handel’s Messiah, featuring the well-known Hungarian soprano, Teresa Titiens and a chorus of 700 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sam wrote from London to Livy about the performance, and enclosed pennies made for him in the mint that day and an emu’s feather. He also enclosed his grievance letter sent to the London Spectator about John Camden Hotten for either Orion or Charles Dudley Warner to publish. Orion was now working on the Hartford Evening Post, which printed a summary of Sam’s letter on Oct. 10 [MTL 5: 179].