August 31 Monday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Sarah A. Sage (Mrs. Dean Sage).

I find my youth renewed by that lark in the mountains, whereas it is to be hoped that Dean Sage is just as old as he was before, for throwing away his opportunity. I believe he would have profited by staying and letting business run it’s [sic] self for a while. Come to think of it, Joe ought to have been there, that was just the place for Joe [Twichell] [MTP].

Sam wrote that he’d finished up his New York business in three and a half hours, so he must have traveled from Onteora to New York City, then back to Elmira.

F.G. de Fontaine for Grant Memorial Assoc. Sent a printed circular letter with a plan to raise money for a Grant statue & memorial [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “A Grant Memorial scheme”