December 4 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Joe Goodman encouraging him to “come east & lay regular siege to Jones.” Now Sam was using Jan. 20 as the date “when the machine will go to work again.” In order to strategize about Senator John P. Jones, Sam urged Joe to “come east immediately.” Sam also called the Mergenthaler “so feeble an enemy” based on its average production rate of 2,000 ems per hour. The Paige was said to be capable of 7,000 ems using an apprentice and up to 24,000 ems at full capacity using a veteran [MTNJ 3: 528; MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam: “We enclose report for the month of November. When you take into consideration that this does note include any work done on the ‘Yankee’ or ‘Conkling’ book, it is very good.” The LAL had secured 197 new orders. Report not extant [MTP].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote to Sam that he’d been unable to contact Senator Jones at the Hoffman House [MTP]. Note: Jones was elusive for Whitford and Goodman in this period.