February 10 Friday – Willard B. Roberts of Sinker & Roberts Investments wrote to Sam about a prospectus that he’d sent the previous fall for the formation of a natural gas company on 60,000 acres in Western Penn. Sam referred this to Whitmore on Feb. 20 [MTP].

Sam’s notebook: Feb. 10 —  ¼ of Trib to-day is handwork [MTNJ 3: 374].

J.M. Ives in N.Y. wrote Sam a funny tale “after a conversation on the train the other day” [MTP].

Joe Twichell wrote and clipped a short anecdote for Sam, one to make him think of the speech he was preparing [MTP].