May – In Hartford, Sam finished CY this month [Kaplan 293]. He also penned two paragraphs as a stock answer to editors as to the status of the Paige typesetter.

…we are hoping, & also expecting, that the Paige Compositor will be finished by the 15th of July. It will use moveable type, of the ordinary sort. By the manipulation of one person it will set type, & at the same time will automatically distribute, accurately space, and perfectly justify the lines.

…it will set several times as many ems as any other machine…it will perfect for the press more than twice as much matter as any other machine, whether that machine uses movable types or makes castings [MTP].

Whitmore wrote that his son Fred had stopped working on the typesetter until some new devices were to be attached. Also that he’d paid some bills; he hoped Sam’s lumbago was “all gone” [MTP].