January 5 Thursday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster after Bliss telephoned asking if he needed to send the check and statement to Webster. Sam confirmed it. He also wrote:

“Hang it, I believe your metallurgical authority says copper can’t be cast in anything but sand. I am sorry, if it is so” [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote: “We cant cast copper or brass in Kaolatype, do you mean for me to make the spelter pattern & then get the copper cast at the foundry?”

Also more on the Paige typesetter [MTP].

Note: Sam wrote on the env., “The intricate way of the Type Co.” Spelter was a zinc alloy, sometimes mixed with lead, that Victorians used to cast images.