August 26 Friday – Henry C. Robinson wrote to Sam that Paige had secured the promise of three million dollars capital by Chicago investors, allowing enough time to have at least one machine on display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. This three-page double-spaced typed letter discloses much of what Robinson found out about Paige (his new salary $5,000 a month), the Webster Mfg. Co. (“has a good name in Chicago”); and the capitalization behind the firm [MTHHR 12; MTP].

An unidentified person wrote to Sam (envelope only survives and it is covered with US and German stamps and postmarks, writings, etc.) [MTP].

August 26 Friday ca. – Sometime soon after the Aug. 25 dinner with the Prince of Wales and Chauncey Depew, Sam wrote a PS, probably of his Aug. 22 letter, musing about the symbolism of the meeting. He also included this paragraph in his Sept. 2 letter to Orion.

Dear Depew:

P.S. Well, sir, the thought comes sizzing & coruscating into my mind that we represented the lion & the unicorn, the usual supporters of British royalty. A fine thought, & not ill expressed, as it seems to me. But I find I cannot tell, for sure, which was the lion & which was the unicorn. It has seemed likely to me that I was the unicorn, because I take only one horn. At a time, I mean, at a time. But all is uncertainty, the question is involved in difficulties. Will you think this out sometime in an idle moment between strikes? [MTP] Note: Depew was a railroad executive and faced strikes during this period.