June 6 Saturday – Case & Rathbun wrote to Sam: “Your telegram duly rec’d, also to-day, order for shirts [half dozen] with slight changes, and order for 200 cigars which we send to-day by express” [MTP].

June 6–8 Monday – Sam wrote a note from Elmira to Scribner, Welford and Armstrong for the purchase of William Harris Rule’s two-volume History of the Inquisition, and Whitaker’s reference catalogue, with listings of 50,000 books [MTL 6: 154].