January 28 Sunday – In New York Sam wrote at 9:30 a.m. to Livy in Paris of the goings on the night before (see Jan. 27 entry). Note: Paine’s volume [MTLP 2:] begins the letter at this 9:30 a.m. addition, but it was added to a letter Sam began at noon on Jan. 27.

Sunday, 9:30 a.m.

I was to go to his house [Rogers] to dinner, & he called to see if I couldn’t go along with him now — first to Dr. Rice’s for treatment for his throat, & for consultation as to financial condition of the price of Rice’s heart and child of his brain, the great new hospital — Rogers is trustee & financial bulwark.

Sam also wrote that Rogers had managed to convert Charles North’s royalties to stock, leaving only the Farnham Type-setter Manufacturing Co.. of Hartford holding out. If Rogers consented, Sam would write a letter to William Hamersley and the Farnham Co.:

I will strip to his skin that fat fraud, that cask of rancid guts.

Sam then wrote more about the financial machinations and then described the Corbett exhibition match and the time after at the “beautiful dwelling close to the Players” (See Jan. 27 for this portion of the letter).