March 8 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Possible engagement” [NB 44 TS 7].

At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore. Once again a bill had been presented by Pratt & Whitney for a portion of the Chicago plant which took on the Paige typesetter. Sam ordered him to “resist the claim, through the Robinson boys or as good a law-firm” [MTP].

Sam also telegrammed Whitmore, message not extant but mentioned in Whitmore’s Mar. 9 to Sam.

Sam also wrote to John William Lloyd (b. 1857): “I thank you very much for the book” [MTP: Copley Library]. Note: only one book for Lloyd is listed in Gribben: Dawn-Thought on the Reconciliation; A Volume of Pantheistic Impressions and Glimpses of Larger Religion (copy 1900) [414].

Judson Smith wrote to Sam:

Permit me to call your attention to the marked paragraphs in the inclosed papers, and to ask you to note their relation to the two conditions named in your letter to the New York Tribune of February 15th.

The first is Dr. Ament’s denial of the truth of the dispatch in the NewYork Sun of December 24th, on which your criticisms of him … were founded. The second is a correction by the Sun’s special correspondent in Peking of the dispatch printed in the Sun of December 24th.

I am sure that upon having these facts brought to your attention you will gladly withdraw the criticisms that were founded on “a cable blunder” [MTP: N.A.R. Apr. 1901 p. 524].