January 13 Friday – Charles Webster wrote that he had Patterson at work on the brass. He enclosed (not in file) a report of the Am. Pub. Co. from Bradstreets and would get another from Dunn & Wyman and “we can see how they agree. I think there are some lies in that statement, especially about the par value of stock” [MTP].

M.M. Mitivier wrote from Holyoke, Mass. inviting Sam to a dinner on Jan. 31 for Louis H. Fréchette, Poet laureate of Quebec [MTP]. Note in file: “Between 15 & 18 January 1882, SLC telegraphed Louis Frechette, evidently professing ignorance of this banquet (see Frechette to SLC 15, 18 January 1882)”