August 19 Thursday – Sam wrote a letter from Elmira for baby Jean Clemens to Olivia Lewis Langdon for grandma’s birthday. He attached a lock of the baby’s hair.

Dear Grandma— / I arrived pretty short, & have not had a chance to make anything yet, over & above a most scanty & inadequate living; so I am not able to send anything to testify my love for you & do homage to your birthday, but a mere lock of my hair—heaven knows I wish it were more, but I am short even in hair [MTLE 5: 148].

Charles Dudley Warner wrote to Sam that Miss Lee, his wife’s sister died at his house the morning before, cause of death the bursting of an internal abscess. He also sent congratulations to Livy [MTP].