October 29 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Augustin Daly, who tried to enlist Sam in writing a play. Sam dumped it off onto William Dean Howells, who was thinking of dramatizing his current novel, A Foregone Conclusion [MTL 6: 263].

Sam also wrote an answer to Howells reply to previous letters and promised to begin work the next day on the first article in the piloting series for the Atlantic [MTL 6: 266].