January 12 Tuesday – In New York, H.H. Rogers wrote to Sam
I have your favor of 30th ult. Miss Harrison is sending you statements of accounts showing receipts from Harper, which I trust will be satisfactory. The explanations will go forward with her letter, so I need not refer to them here. …
I wish I could follow out your suggestion in regard to going to Italy. I am about fagged out again, having been at work since October. My Boston suit is not yet settled, and I go on the rack again on Saturday next.
Rogers also reported he would take care of the Brooklyn Union Gas subscription. The Coe baby was well again, and he observed it was “pretty hard to write you anything new,” since Sam was getting the NY Sun. He did note that William Mackay Laffan was moving to oppose the re-nomination of Theodore Roosevelt; there was pressure on John Hay to take the nomination for the presidency, but his health was in question. He closed with:
Rice is still a bachelor. He had his boy down for the holidays, and seemed to enjoy his visit. We went with him to the Minstrels Saturday night, and had a good time. I wish you could see the “County Chairman.” There is the best bit of negro acting in it that I have seen for years. I have been twice and laughed all the evening. / With kindest regards…[MTHHR 551-3].