September 25 Friday – At the Grosvenor Hotel in N.Y.C. Sam wrote to Miss Jones (not further identified): “Mrs. Clemens & I thought that maybe these books of mine might come handy some time or other when times are slack & nothing else going on, & so we beg to offer them to you with our very best wishes & heartiest congratulations” [MTP]. Note: this had been misdated as 1891.
Sam’s notebook : “Lawyer Edward Lauterbach. If I had had him 30 yrs ago I shd not have been swindled so often. / Franklin Chamberlin. / Will Hamersley” [NB 46 TS 24]. Note: Edward Lauterbach (1844-1923), NY attorney and trustee of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum for 39 years. Sam notes “swindles” by William T. Hamersley, and neighbor Franklin Chamberlin of Hartford.
Harold Wheeler for the Plasmon Co. of America wrote to Sam. “To confirm our conversation of yesterday, with reference to the Plasmon shares left available for distribution by reason of the defaults of H. E. Wright and H.C. Davis in meeting their subscriptions, I beg to advise you as follows:” Wheeler wrote that $24,722.22 was the unpaid balance of those subscriptions and that they had 745- 7/9 shares thus available, but that Hammond, Law and Butters had arranged to take this stock, but could arrange for Sam to take a share, which would amount to $3,531.75; if he wanted it they’d need payment by Friday of the following week [MTP].