September 24 Sunday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Charles Webster about settling for royalties owed him by the Sheldon & Co.; Osgood’s return to New York; and the Slote matter of the $5,000 “loan” which was still being settled, probably from his estate. Sam had prepared an ad to run in the New York Herald’s personals about the Sheldon matter and to “keep it there 7 years unless the thieves pay up sooner” [MTBus 201]. (See entry of Jan. 27, 1871 about the Sheldon matter.)