September 4 Wednesday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore about the family’s plans to return to Hartford:

We leave here the morning of the 10th. We stop at the Murray Hill from the evening of the 10th to noon the 12th. / Mail no letters for me here later than afternoon of 7th. Send them to Murray Hills, marked “to be kept till called for” [MTP]. Note: Sam’s plans went awry, for the family did not leave Quarry Farm until Sept. 16.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam (financial statement enclosed and letter forwarded) asking for a contribution. Should he decline in Sam’s name unless they came “from first class and well known source[s]” or should he refer them to Sam? [MTLTP 257n5].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam (Charles Ethan Davis to Whitmore Sept. 3 encl.) that he paid Paige for expenses $1,593.82 for the month of Aug. and another $112 for patents. Some $6,023.30 was owed to Pratt & Whitney [MTP].