September 11 Wednesday – Most of the errands on Sam’s above list were probably completed this day. Plus, he had a 3 p.m. Sept. 11 appointment with his lawyer, Daniel Whitford of Alexander & Green to discuss what to do about a theatrical manager named Jacobs who was putting on an unauthorized play of Tom Sawyer in Buffalo. On the same line he planned to see William Mackay Laffan at 11 a.m. His “telegram home” is not extant. So, Sam met with the men he needed to see, arranged temporary memberships for Frank Finlay at the Lotos Club and the Players Club, got a haircut, telegraphed home, secured cash from the Murray Hill Hotel, and probably stopped by Webster & Co. — a busy day [MTNJ 3: 519n121].

A Webster & Co. note was due for $4,000 at the Mount Morris Bank [MTLTP 257n6].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that his note from the Murray Hill Hotel was received. He wrote that the papers from Stanley’s lawyers had come and were ok — they were intended to prevent John Rose Troup from publishing his book in the US.

As you return to Elmira so early tomorrow morning of course I will not be able to see you. If there had been anything very important I should have waited over to-night to see you, but there is nothing. Everything is running smoothly. I have got some good general agents in the far West and in a few days will be ready to start for Chicago & that section of the country to appoint general agents [MTP].

Opha Moore editor of Light magazine wrote to Sam soliciting a submission and asking the price he would want for a “sketch of less than 1,000 words” [MTP].