May 7 Sunday – The CBR arrived at Baton Rouge at 4:10 AM, Bayou Sara at 7:30 AM, and Natchez, Miss. at 4:15 PM [MTNJ 2: 560].

“We made Natchez (three hundred miles) in twenty-two hours and a half—much the swiftest passage I have ever made over that piece of water” [Ch 51 LM].

At Natchez there was a slight accident and a small delay. The boat took a barge in tow about a mile north of town. The towline parted, causing the barge to strike the CBR’s larboard wheel. The barge sank. The CBR had to return to Natchez for repair [Loges 5-6]. (See Loges’ article for descriptions and pictures of the City of Baton Rouge.)

Kate D. Barstow wrote to ask if she could get an “author’s discount” Sam had mentioned for Appleton’s American Cyclopedia [MTP]. Note: Livy wrote on the env., “Answered, at the same time sending one of Estes & Lauriat Clearance Catalogue with two copies A.C. advertised in it. / O.L.C.”