October 18 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster. All of Sam’s prior investment losses in inventions would pale next to the Paige typesetter debacle, which he wrote about:

Mr. Wm. Hammersley, [Hamersley] our City Attorney, will call on you at your Engraving office, at 10 o’clock Thursday morning.

He & I are stockholders in the Pa[i]ge Type-Setting Machine. The company wants to let a contract to somebody with $300,000 in his pocket, who can clear $2,000,000 on said contract in four or five years. I said Mr. Whitford, or you & Mr. Whitford between you, could probably find such a man (or men) if it could be made pecuniarily worth your while to do it. Mr. Hammersley will explain the matter to you; & then perhaps both of you had better step over & explain it to Mr. Whitford [MTP]. Note: Daniel Whitford (b. 1840) was a Fredonia lawyer, now with the prestigious New York firm of Alexander & Green [MTBus 171-2; A. Hoffman 298]