July 19 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Elmira to James R. Osgood:

Won’t you please send to Commodore Rollingpin [John Henton Carter] and get a photograph of Capt. Isaiah Sellers’ Monument in Bellfontaine Cemetary, and let our artist make a 2/3 or a full page picture of it. I stole my nom de plume from him, and shall have considerable to say about him, for out there he was ‘illustrious’ ” [MTLTP 156-7]. Note: The photograph was used to make an engraving which appeared in Life on the Mississippi.

Dean Sage wrote to Sam that he’d sold all of his and Sam’s Wabash stocks the day before at 35 & ¾ and now it was 37 & ¼, so coming to NY cost him $300 [MTP].