July 5 Sunday – Sam wrote from San Francisco to Elisha Bliss, advising him of staying over one steamer (from June 30 to July 6) “in order to lecture & so persecute the public for their lasting benefit & my profit” [MTL 2: 233].

Sam also wrote Mary Mason Fairbanks about the successful “Venice” lecture. This time the reviews of the papers were unanimously favorable.

“But one thing I know—there is no slang, & no inelegancies in it—& I never swore once, never once was guilty of profanity” [MTL 2: 234-5].

Sam also wrote to John Henry Riley, letter not extant but referred to in Riley’s July 25 reply.