April 18 Monday – Sam went to New York, where he wrote a brief note to Edmund W. Gosse (1849-1928), English poet, author and critic, who evidently had requested a photograph. Gosse at this time was an important critic of sculpture, writing for the Saturday Review. Sam owned a copy of Gosse’s Thomas Gray, English Men of Letters Series (1882), which was purchased Apr. 28, 1884:

I have none by me, either here or at home in Hartford, (whither I am at this moment bound)…the best & the latest one was made by Sarony of this city, but I keep neglecting to order any [MTP].

As this note explains, Sam returned to Hartford soon after.

Back in Hartford, Sam wrote through Franklin G. Whitmore to D.J. Tapley, the binder who Webster & Co. Was presently using. This was an answer to Tapley’s questions about the price for the rights to the Kaolatype Patent, “exclusive of local rights already sold is ($3,000.00)”[MTP].

J.W. Barnes wrote from San Leandro, Calif. To Sam. Barnes claimed to have built the hotel at Gold Hill and claimed Sam left there in 1863 owing him $20. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Must be a lie. I have never left a hotel bill unpaid in my life SLC” [MTP].