February 24 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Frank Fuller.

      Enclosed please find the original draft of recipe for infants’ food.

      Yes, it was $5,000 that I inserted in the Bowers experiments, & I’m pretty glad to hear it has been drawing 100 per cent interest—or promises to do that happy thing…let us hope for luck in the forthcoming whisky. Both you & I tried to get the old fool to make the still, in the first place, & leave the steam engine for a later effort, but he wouldn’t [MTLE 5: 26]. Note: see June 11, 1877 entry. These speculations involved a whisky still and a new kind of steam engine; an inventor H.C. Bowers, and Woodruff Iron Works. Fuller promoted such pursuits to Sam’s financial loss. In this case $5,000.