May 7 Monday – In his May 8 to Rogers, Sam wrote of this evening:

I invited myself out to dinner last night [May 7], & I’ve got the brooch & a letter for Mrs. Duff. I invited Rice to come out & play billiards, & no doubt he would have come if he hasn’t said he would. However, I took it out of Harry [Rogers’ son] & we didn’t need the doctor [MTP].

A draft of an agreement in Sam’s hand with John Brusnahan, print foreman for the New York Herald, to sell stock in the new Paige Compositor Co., survives with this date:

May 7,/94 / Agreement entered into with John Brusnahan. He to sell $100,000 or less, of Mrs. C.’s stock at 50, and pay into Miss Harrison’s hands 45, taking the remaining 5 as commission. Payments to be in installments — 10 per cent down, and 10 per cent a month till the whole is paid — the stock to be then delivered. He to have also, as further commission, one share of paid-up stock for every 10 shares (ten) sold through him and paid for. This agreement to terminate June 15, 1894 [MTHHR 61n1].