October 14 Monday – In Hartford, on or just after A.F. Kelly’s letter of Oct. 12 with check arrived, Sam forwarded them to Franklin G. Whitmore and asked him to acknowledge receipt [MTP]. Note: allowing for mailing time between Elmira and Hartford, this would be the soonest Sam might have forwarded the letter and check to Whitmore.

The New York Times ran a short paragraph on p.8 of Sam’s invitation to a benefit:

THE HORACE GREELEY STATUE.

The Horace Greeley Statue Committee met yesterday at 222 East Twentieth-street, and J.T. McKechnie reported that Bill Nye and J. Whitcomb Riley had promised to participate at the entertainment to be given for the benefit of the statue fund at Palmer’s Theatre on Jan. 9. Amos Cummings will also give some of the reminiscences. Mark Twain had been invited to preside at the entertainment, but he sent $20 with a letter stating he had sworn off from lecturing. The statue fund now amounts to $10,192.10.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that they’d “already sent out some four hundred prospectuses of your book [CY] and a great many thousand circulars,” neither of which “begin to do justice to the pictures.” He also noted they’d lost Chauncey M. Depew’s book to Cassell publishers [MTP].

Orion Clemens wrote that he’d shipped a bag of hickory nuts to Sam the day before; he wrote more on the legal ramifications with Paige. Orion saw the error in “departing from prescribed legal forms” and wrote several pages on what-if’s with legal “advice” [MTP].