October 2 Tuesday – Sam gave a dinner speech at the Putnam Phalanx Dinner, Allyn House in Hartford for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. “If you fight as well as you feed, God protect the enemy” [Fatout, MT Speaking 106-9]. Budd identifies the title as “My Military History” [“Collected” 1017].

Maze Edwards, the agent Sam had hired to follow Ah Sin on the road, wrote feedback to Sam on the performances. Disappointing audiences showed the play needed rewriting. He offered that Parsloe knew someone who could rewrite the play if Sam chose not to; that the “vulgarities of the Plunkett women must somehow be removed” [MTP].