August 6 Tuesday – Sam wrote from New Saybrook to Charles M. Underhill (1839-1924), a general salesman for an affiliate of the J. Langdon & Co. Theodore Crane had informed Sam that his annual payment to Thomas A. Kennett was due with interest (Sam still owed $5,000 of the initial $25,000 for the one-third interest in the Buffalo Express). Sam enclosed a check for $2,000 and wrote that Crane would draft $815 from Elmira [MTL 5: 138].

Bills paid Flower & Hills, Hartford grocers $7.87; to E.C.C. Kellogg & Co. for furnishing material $22.65 [MTP].

Joseph L. Blamire for Routledge & Sons wrote to Sam having rec’d his of July 31 and also of Aug. 2 (neither extant), again urging Sam to come to England rather than Cuba & Florida as he’d previously written [MTP].