January 13 Saturday – In New York Sam wrote to Livy from Mr. Rogers’ office. He described Rogers’ sending a telegram framed by the Conn. Co. people and followed by his own: “My telegram of yesterday [Jan. 11] states my position accurately. From it I shall not recede.” Paige’s lawyer was pressing a point about stock and royalties, but Rogers issued a final stand, “nothing being required of Paige that was not clearly & absolutely fair, & he must take the offer or leave it.” Sam also told of the “stir & talk” one of his sketches had caused:

You remember the talk the £1,000,000 Bank Note made? Now you never would expect that “Traveling with a Reformer” would make similar stir & talk, but it really has done that. And not only that, but people tell me they are trying those diplomacies & making them succeed. That’s the best part of it. In one case the experimenter didn’t work it right, & it failed. But I corrected his method, & the next chance he got he went through with colors flying. Last night a young lady in the great company at R.U. Johnson’s said I was her benefactor; she had never known, before, how to get her rights, but she knew now ….

Mr. Rogers & I are going up stairs to luncheon, now, & from there to a matinee at the theatre. But I am pretty drowsy. I have to get up at 7.30 to shave & get to these 8.45 conferences, & it makes me feel rusty.

Sam also wrote of Joe Twichell giving him a book of John Winthrop’s love letters, Some Old Puritan Love-letters, John and Margaret Winthrop, 1618-1638 (1893). It is not in Gribben, but Joe’s 1891 history, John Winthrop, First Governor of the Massachusetts Colony is (p.719). Sam would bring the book to Livy.