October 21 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Hjalmar Boyesen, inviting him to a dinner with Charles Dudley Warner, Joe Twichell and others [MTP]

Sam also wrote to Count Claes Lewenhaupt, which probably sets the dinner date mentioned above:

Mrs. Clemens & I beg the pleasure of your company at dinner at our house at 6.15 p.m. next Monday [MTP].

Note: Count Claes Lewenhaupt was a First Lieutenant of Hussars in the King of Sweden’s bodyguard, and the eldest son and heir of Count Adam Lewenhaupt of Sjoholm. He was a friend or acquaintance of Boyesen. See Oct. 25 for Boyesen’s thanks.

Charles Webster wrote a “frantic letter” to Sam about interpreting the Oct. 1 statement of the firm and requesting $10,000 plus a note for $12,073.47 “to complete the $75,000 capital required by the contract.” (The new contract of Apr. 1 held Sam’s minimum capital in the firm to that amount.)

You have made a great mistake some way and I fail to see where you got the figures to make it. The paper which you took a few days ago showed only “Receipts” and “Disbursements” but not Assets and Liabilities to Author etc…. On sales for the last six months there is nothing to divide according to the old contract there is as stated before $12919.40.

Webster pleaded that the firm was “so low in cash that I do not dare” pay the full amount but promised to send $5,000 the next week [MTLTP 237n2].

Check #  Payee  Amount  [Notes]

3872  Mme. Helen M. Abry  100.00

3873  Baltimore & Ohio Tel Co  1.74

3874  The Worthington Co  2.50  Publishers