October 7 Friday – In N.Y.C. at the Grosvenor Hotel, Sam dictated a letter to Ralph W. Ashcroft for Isabel V. Lyon about the purchase of stock from Ashcroft.

Dear Miss Lyon: / Please fill up stub of check No. 68 in the Guaranty Trust Co. with the amount: “$4000,” the name: “R. W. Ashcroft,” and the explanation: “first payment completing purchase of International Spirit Pen [sic Spiral Pin] Co. stock.”

Please also send me another numbered Guaranty check, (in blank,) to the Grosvenor.

Please give my love to Jean. I expect to write to her to-day. I have been too busy dedicating churches in Fairhaven to do it earlier [MTP]. Note: the “Spirit” vs. “Spiral” may be a TS error.