November 12 Friday – In the morning, Sam called on General James B. Fry, Mrs. Julia Grant, and William Mackay Laffan. He then met his mother-in-law, Olivia Lewis Langdon and returned with her to Hartford, where she spent the winter with the family [MTNJ 3: 264n125]. In his notebook is a reminder to: “Get spectacles,” and to meet with the above, then “Receive mother” at the hotel, “12.15. Friday.”

J.W. Schuckers, of the Printer Composing Machine Co., wrote to Sam from Belloville, New Jersey. His letter was enclosed in Sam’s Nov. 13 to Paige to arrange a meeting for the purpose of selling a spacing device. The New York law firm of Thomas Ewing and M.I. Southard represented Schuckers [MTP; MTNJ 3: 267n134].

The New York Sun printed an account of the Nov. 11 Governor’s Island reading, “Sir Robert Smith of Camelot.” The New York Herald article used the name, “Sir Bob Smith” [Tenney 15].

Dwight L. Moody for Mt. Hermon Boys’ School (Mt. Hermon, Mass.) wrote asking him to support half a student’s cost for one year, $100. Sam wrote on the envelope, “D.L. Moody the Revivalist / No sympathy with the movement” [MTP].