October 28 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “This, or later, preside at Low Speech. Delafield dinner” [NB 44 TS 15]. Note: rally speech made on Oct. 29. Also, possibly Richard Delafield (1853-1930), banker and Merchant, resident of Tuxedo Park.

In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore. Only the envelope survives [MTP].

Thomas B. Reed, who had taken up the case of R.G. Newbegin Co. and W.I. Squire, wrote to Sam:

I have your note. I am, like yourself, persuaded that Newbegin is at the bottom of it [the fraudulent circular] for I have received a letter from Thorne, who was the agent and managing man of Squire’s, that somebody came to him from Colorado and said he had been using the letter there, and that doubtless Newbegin could give me some information about it. I sent a copy to Newbegin, and stated to him that I awaited his reply.

Reed was also glad to see Sam had been treated well at the Yale Bicentennial in New Haven; and his law partner, Thomas Thacher, thought Sam was the best man there [MTP].