January 16 Thursday – Edmund Hudson, editor of the National Democrat Weekly (Washington) wrote after hearing about the Thorne typesetters from Sylvester Baxter of the Boston Herald. “I will be glad if you can aid me in making my order one of the earliest to be supplied,” Hudson wrote, after mentioning that the Mergenthaler and Lanston machines in Washington had “absorbed a good deal of money without yielding much in the way of dividends.” Hudson did not mention Paige by name [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam, passing on Hall’s cable from London:

Marston says, owing to the variety of offers must see Stanley. Expected here two weeks. Think I had better remain if O.K. at home. Marston likes offer but has better cash guarantees. Osgood pressing him hard. Wire answer [MTP]. Note: Sam’s old publisher James R. Osgood had set up shop in England.