September 10 Saturday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Franklin Whitmore acknowledging receipt of his telegram on the matter of selling stock; he would follow Whitmore’s lead. Sam affected a cockney accent:

“It as been orrible weather ere, otter then we’ve ever seen it before on the summit of this hill. But we shan’t complain, as long as it isn’t killing the President” [Note: Garfield died Sept. 19].

He also telegrammed & wrote to his brokers, Hubbard & Farmer, letter not extant but referred to in H&F’s Sept. 13 reply.

Charles Webster wrote twice to Sam, enclosing a clipping “Patent Laws of England” from the NY Telegram. He’d been fixing up his office so would need more funds. A page or two on Kaolatype. He’d rec’d Sam’s of the 7th [MTP].