August 23 Friday – Sam may have been in New York City on business (see Aug 21 entry).

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam:

I have heard both from Mr. S.E. Dawson and from Mr. Daniel Rose — they will see me the first part of next week, so I think there will be no difficulty in settling the Canadian matter satisfactorily.

I will leave Monday and get back as soon as I possibly can.

I have made arrangement with the Mount Morris Bank, and they will let us have whatever money we want for the manufacture of your book [CY] and the Conkling book, but I am going to try and get along with as little as possible. The chances are this is the last time, we will ever have to call on them.

      As I figure it, it will cost about $62000 to place the first 10,000 copies of your book on the market, and in the neighborhood of $2000 to place the first 5000 of the Conkling book on the market, making in all about 68,000 that we will have to draw out before any receipts for the same will come in. However we are going along very nicely indeed now [MTP]. Note: The error here was corrected by E.H.R. in the Aug. 27 letter, making Sam’s book cost at $6,200 (not $62,000), for a total of $8,200.