May 16 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster.

“Yes, if we snatch Sneider up before the court he will weaken & be glad to sign the documents & get out.

Warn Mr. Beck against him, first time you get a chance.” Sam asked what $3,000 worth of “plant” amounted to that he’d paid Dan Slote for. He sent a check for $400 he “…got for a magazine article. This, like stock speculations, is money got for nothing, so to speak. Send Perkins the Co.’s note for it” [MTBus 156].

Sam also wrote to James R. Osgood, thanking him for a $400 check and concluding that since he’d survived, the lumbago medicine (see May 12 letter) “is all right” [MTP].

Wm. T. Bassett, hairdresser, billed Sam $25.50 “from shaving apr 18 to may 14, 1881” [MTP].