February 13 Wednesday – Sam and Livy spent the day in Albany with the Dean Sage family.

Mary E. Cary, bed-ridden, wrote a “begging letter” from Brooklyn: “Do you think the enclosed worth any little sum?” [MTP].

Henry Loomis Nelson (1846-1908) wrote from New Rochelle, N.Y. to Sam enclosing his editorial, “Filibustering Run Mad,” which ran in the N.Y. Times on Feb. 14. Nelson asked for a copy of Sam’s speech before Congress. Nelson, an editor, author, and journalist involved in the international copyright movement. His article decried the recent failure of copyright legislation. Nelson would later be editor-in-chief at Harper’s Weekly (1894-8).

Francis Wayland for Yale Law School wrote to Sam that he was sorry not to find him home last Thursday. He wanted to ask Sam to read at the school’s Kent Club some time in the spring [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam pumped with the idea of a book by Alfred R. Conkling, nephew of Roscoe Conkling: The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling [MTP; Gribben 157].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam on Pratt & Whitney letterhead: “I have just seen the machine set & justify by power one line of type. It was done perfectly.” He advised waiting for the “N.Y. Committee to witness the working” for at least a week “as the operators, Van & Fred, are not well or hardly at all acquainted with the keyboard” [MTP].