November 4 Tuesday – Robert J. Burdette wrote from Bryn Mawr, Penn. to Sam:

I came home to save the country and find waiting for me something I would rather read than the President’s message any time — a letter from you. Having saved the country and read your letter, I am off for the wars again. / Robert the junior said he saw you crossing the College grounds Sunday a week ago, but the rest of the family laughed him to scorn and said he had seen a spirit. But the phantom which we are now convinced that he saw, will always be a most welcome ghost at our material dinner table [MTP].

Charles J. Langdon wrote to ask Sam to advise him by mail of Henry M. Stanley’s address as they wanted to get him to Elmira during his lecture tour [MTP].