June 28 Friday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore.
I expect a telegram from Paige to-morrow to say the machine is done. After that, I would like a daily note from you telling me the state of the machine…. Ask Paige to keep the fact that the machine is finished absolutely secret from everybody until I come. I’ve got a scheme which will explain this [MTP].
Sam’s notebook: [chk] #4974. Whitmo, $125, June 28 / #4975. F.G. Warner $9 [3: 491].
June 27 Thursday – Orion Clemens wrote to Sam having received the monthly $200 check. Samuel and Mary Moffett left yesterday and Orion related their conversations. Ma was going to a concert this evening — “seems to be well enough to walk to the opera house. We’ll ride.” He wrote of writing and starting again several times on a religious article [MTP]. Sam likely traveled back to Elmira by this day.
June 26 Wednesday – Sam spoke at the Yale Alumni Banquet in New Haven, Conn.
June 25 Tuesday – Sam’s Notebook:
Offered William Gillette stock at one-2500th for $1000. This offer has also been made heretofore to Dean Sage, Ned Bunce, H.C. Robinson, Mr. Parsons, Charley Langdon, Theodore Crane & George Griffin. I had the hope that they would decline, & they did. The stock is worth either ten times that or it is worth nothing; maybe the latter, though I think otherwise [3: 496].
June 24 Monday –For Sam to have traveled to New Haven for the Yale Alumni speech of June 26, he would have had to leave Elmira this day or the next.
June 23 Sunday – In Elmira † Sam wrote a short note to O.C. Kingsley of Kingman, Sturtevant & Larrabee, who had written June 20.
It was all the better to leave off the quotation marks because if you had coupled my name with the story it would have injured me in England, where they believe everything I say [MTP].
June 22 Saturday – In Elmira Sam wrote a short paragraph to Andrew Chatto, asking him to telegraph Henry M. Stanley the letter that Sam had sent Chatto “a day or two ago.” Sam was anxious to tie up Stanley for a book “before Osgood or any other American agent or publisher” got to him [MTP].
G.P. Davis for Travelers Insurance wrote to Sam soliciting funds for the Hartford YMCA [MTP].
June 21 Friday ca. before – In a letter from Charles Fulton to Edward H. House, Sam was quoted in a letter to Horace Wall, that the dramatic rights for P&P had passed from his control and been registered for production. Sam was quoted as adding, “But not to House; he has no rights or anything in the matter” [MTP].
June 20 Thursday – Henry Fears (1889-1965) was born in Crawford Co. Ark. (without this event, you would not be reading this book. David H. Fears, his grandson.)
O.C. Kingsley wrote on Kingman, Sturtevant & Larrabee, builders of Carriages letterhead, thanking Sam for being “the recipient of many favors, both liquid and otherwise” for the retelling in Kenilworth, England of the narrative of “The Incorporated Company of Mean Men” in RI [MTP].
June 19 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook:
June 19, 1889 [gave] Susie L. Crane a paper agreeing (upon surrender of said paper) to deliver her paid-up stock representing a One Five Hundredth of the whole of the capital stock “of the company which is to be organized to manufacture, & sell or rent Paige Compositors under the (American) patents, so soon as such company shall be formed & begin the issue of stock [”].
After some remarks of F W [Whitmore], concluded to say nothing about his project & let it drop [3: 493].