July 2 Wednesday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam in Hartford, presuming “you will not want to be bothered with business matters while in the Catskills.” Hall had received Sam’s two letters (one identified by Hall’s reference as Sam’s June 30) and would do as he suggested on “the Stedman matter” (Stedman objected to the firm’s use of the word “Library” in selling their “Great War Library” books — see June 30 from SLC to Hall). As for money Sam needed, Hall could send $500 “any time you want it” and hoped “to follow it very soon by another and larger remittance”. Hall’s handwritten PS noted he’d called at the hotel at about 10.30 but “the boy said he could find no trace of you” [MTP]. Note: this last indicates the family had left for Onteora.

C.O. Fosgate wrote from Boston to Sam, a follow up letter asking about Robert M. Howland. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Tell him I am absent & left no address? SLC” [MTP].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam that he’d just received a note from Charles Ethan Davis that “Paige was going on with the work as he had understood it with Mr. Clemens”[MTP].