December 6 Saturday – In the afternoon, Sam gave his “Sandwich Islands” lecture at Queen’s Concert Rooms, London [MTPO]. Afterward, Sam wrote a short note to Livy.

“There was a mighty fine house there this afternoon, & I went through all right, but I am getting unspeakably sick of the Sandwich Islands as a topic to lecture on. I shall get tired of the new one in a week I expect” [MTL 5: 494].

A bill was paid to Gridley & Frisbee, Hartford dealer of soap & candles, skins, hides, for $5.25 [MTP].

Prentice Mulford (“Dogberry”) wrote from London to solicit Sam’s help with London publishers who he claimed were stealing by not paying him. He was “very much down at present; you are up where you deserve to be”[MTP]. Note: Sam’s reply is not extant, but Mulford’s of the next day, Dec. 7 thanking for tickets and sympathy shows he did reply on Dec. 6 or 7.