April 2 Saturday – Sam purchased “one Singer Sewing Machine #3321714” from Singer Manufacturing Co., Hartford, for $40 [MTP].
James R. Osgood wrote from Boston to Sam about “a letter from [H.N.] Hinckely, [sic Hinckley] the Chicago man, and have replied to him that ‘a Handbook of Etiquette’ would be a trade-book, that the ‘Cyclopedia of Humor’ would not be published for a considerable time—(by the way, have you heard from Gebbie yet?)” [MTP]. See Apr. 4.
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The sewing machine looks to have been made in 1879. Treadle, may or may not have come with a table. They are selling for approx $300 today.