October 1 Tuesday – Pamela Moffet came to visit the Clemens family for a week. She was living with her son Samuel Moffett, a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner [Oct. 7 to Langdon].

H. McNeilly was one of the three “cub” apprentices considered for the Paige typesetter. On Sept. 30 he came to Hartford and tried the Paige machine, but a day later, this day, sent a note to Sam saying he’d decided against moving to Hartford to be an apprentice. He asked if he might have a pasteboard copy of the keyboard to study for when the machine went to New York [MTNJ 3: 568n268].

Charles Ethan Davis wrote another cryptic typesetter production test postcard to Sam: “Oct 1st 3.52 R. = 4992 F.” and for the same date using ditto marks for the date 4.37 R = 2352 J. / Davis”  [MTP].