October 31 Tuesday – At 10 a.m. in New York, Sam shipped out daughter Clara on the liner Allee, bound for Europe. Clara was accompanied by Miss Katherine Willard, daughter of Clara’s Berlin schoolmaster. Later Sam wrote to Mary Mapes Dodge that Clara had just left and that if she had missed seeing her altogether, he guessed “the dentist was the reason.” He would be at her place for dinner on Thursday Nov. 2 by himself, unless she notified him otherwise [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Towner K. Webster, of Webster Mfg., Chicago, the company involved in the Paige typesetter there. It was a letter of introduction for Henry H. Rogers, and a request that Webster,

…give him & any whom he may bring with him every opportunity to examine & test the Compositor…for I want Mr. Rogers to know all about the machine.

I do not need to explain to you who Mr. Rogers is, since whoever knows the Standard Oil knows him [MTP].