December 6 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Henry Clay Lukens of the New York Press Club, declining another invitation. Sam wrote he was “booked for that day” [MTLE 5: 219].

Woolley’s Livery Stable bill of Jan. 2? Shows use of a hack this day for two and a quarter hours, $2.75 [MTP].

Dan Slote for Slote, Woodman & Co., wrote to Sam (Knoof to Slote, ca. Dec. 4 enclosed). “Your middle name received have telegraphed it to Alexander & Mason, who required it for all the foreign patents, which will be issued to each of us—Snider [sic Sneider], Clemens & Slote equally in 1/3rds” [MTP]. Note: The fraud Sneider shows this as referring to the Koalatype process.