February 27 Wednesday – Frank Fuller wrote to Sam on Woodruff Iron Works to Fuller Feb. 27 :

Read this now! I would not send it, only old man Woodruff will be here, & if I can’t help him, he’ll weep, & I can’t stand it. Old Bowers has succeeded, in killng off the Syndicate, I think, & has now disappeared himself. He borrowed & borrowed from them, pending a decision, & disgusted them all. I only lately found out the cause of their lack of interest [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Answered / Preserve”; H.C. Bowers was an inventor of a still and a different sort of steam engine, both invested in by Clemens after Fuller’s promotions.