September 22 Saturday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore and confirmed that the family would “start for New York Monday afternoon.” He was sending home a hat trunk that would get to Hartford before they did and since there was nothing in it but Livy’s things, it could remain unopened [MTP].

John H. Burnett wrote a sort of a “begging letter” from St. John’s Hospital in Brooklyn to Sam, recalling “a very pleasant afternoon & taking dinner with” the Clemenses “years ago.” Now he had no place to sleep and was crippled from an attack of apoplexy. [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall for Webster & Co. wrote to Sam at the Murray Hill Hotel; Hall proposed going to Cleveland, Chicago and perhaps St. Louis, returning through Cincinnati and Philadelphia to “stir up the General Agents there” [MTP].