August 13 Wednesday – In York Harbor, Maine Sam replied to Charles S. Fairchild’s Aug. 10 inquiry about the 14 W. 10th house for rent. It was “well enough, for a dam’d old rack-heap,” but he disdained the agent, “Something S. Brown,” whom he thought dishonest, and the owners, who were in Paris and who had left “one of the Christliest book-heaps” he knew of in the house [MTP].
Sam also wrote to H.H. Rogers about the crisis of the prior day for Livy (see entry) and included.
“We have a pair of excellent physicians. One is an osteopath with an allopathic diploma & training, & the other is a New York M. D. They work together. One comes several times a day & the other stays all night”
[MTHHR 497-8]. Note: Hill identifies these doctors as Drs. Allen and Putnam, who, “arrived, ministered, and departed. Dr. Hawkes’s name was recorded …” [46].
The telegraph from a Denver Post reporter (see in Aug. 13) reached Sam in the afternoon [Aug. 14 to Post].