September 3 Wednesday – In Onteora Park near Tannersville, N.Y. Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall about rotten fruit and larger-than-ordered fruit baskets from a New York merchant named Goldsmith. Pay the man $42 and let him sue for the rest of the bill, Sam argued. After receiving too much bad fruit Sam had complained to Hall; the quality improved but larger baskets were sent without authorization. When the bill came, larger than agreed ($3 each) prices were charged.

If you have to hunt up another fruiterer for us, (for this one will quit,) please make distinct terms with him, as in G.’s case [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that he was going to Syracuse to see Watson Gill next week. “The enclosed statement [not extant] speaks for itself. It is the best August we have had since the Grant book.” Hall felt if they could “scrape along for the next four or five months” they would be well again [MTP].