November 14 Saturday – Lizzie C. Grant (Mrs. Jesse Grant) wrote to thank Samfor an article she’d rec’d from the Philadelphia Ledger about the portrait of Gen. Grant [MTP].

James Fraser Glück wrote that the HF MS. arrived this afternoon. He asked Sam to use his influence with Charles Dudley Warner to contribute his papers [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “MS. for Buffalo”

R.L. Blakeman wrote from Troy NY “Aha! Students at a mathematical institution are an ill-chosen lot among whom to trust to an effort at wit to get you over a blunder like that. The boys opened the envelope, but when they caught the drift, their ridicule was not for the critic, but for the author, of the words ‘five or six trees in a straight row, equidistant from each other.’ Yours…” [MTP].

A.J. Williams, M.D. wrote a letter from McGregor, Ia. of “admiration” for Sam’s essay in the Christian Union, a response to John Senior. “My wife & I both think that was the best & wisest & most human-hearted thing ever written on that subject, & we want to thank you” [MTP].