May 25 Tuesday – In Elmira, Sam wrote to James Redpath:

      TK Beecher is splendid in the pulpit—splendid is the word but I have never seen him on the platform at all—never have heard him lecture.

      Our people all like his lecturing, but you ask me for my opinion, & individually, & so I have to confess ignorance [MTP, drop-in letters].

Phineas T. Barnum wrote to Sam that he would “drop in on” him someday, “but of course not till you have been here, which I hope will be soon.” He sent another package of queer letters [MTP].

May 25? Tuesday – On or about this date, Thomas K. Beecher, still pastor of the Elmira church where the Langdons attended, arrived for a week’s visit and to exchange pulpits with Twichell [MTL 6: 487].