December 9 Wednesday – Sam returned to New York on the 1:20 AM train.

Opera House, Newark, New Jersey: Sam gave his “Vandals” lecture, sponsored here by the Clayonian Society. Back in his room, Sam wrote Livy about his talk with Twichell, and the successful lecture in Newark.

“Tonight you would not have recognized this as the same dull harangue I dragged myself through so painfully in Elmira” [MTL 2: 318-24].