September 14 Monday – At Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y. Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers and Emilie R. Rogers.
Your telegram [not extant] from Boston conveying Harvey’s acceptance at nine dollars [see Sept 15 from Rogers] has just been telephoned up here to the hilltop from town, & has made me immensely comfortable. Things do certainly point to a pull-off, & I guess it will happen; but there isn’t anybody that could make it happen but you.
I took the telephone myself, & no one knows about it but me—& won’t, for the present. I am superstitious, & shan’t make a noise till we are out of the woods. I told Mrs. Clemens night before last that you were handling the matter, & that that was particulars enough for the present. She was quite satisfied with that, & will shut down the inquiry-mill until the business is finished.
She is getting along pretty well, & is as grateful to you as I am.
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Dear Mrs. Rogers: / ask him what message he sent to them (coming down in the elevator) [MTHHR 536].
Sam’s notebook: “Frank & ‘Wally’ Bliss his sons; Harry Harper; Col. George Harvey / Duneka. ” [NB 46 TS 24].