August 4 Friday – Sam paid Estes & Lauriat of Boston $110 for 26 volumes of Agnes & Elizabeth Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest, and other works by the two, including a six-volume work by Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England. The bill paid was dated July 28 [Gribben 674].

Sam telegraphed from Elmira to Hubbard & Farmer brokers to “Sell out I.B.& W. stock above 46” [MTP].

Hubbard & Farmer bankers & brokers advised they’d sold 200 shares JB & W at 46 [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote that his daughter Alice was now well. He’d seen Osgood and he examined the report of Mr. Morgan, who found there’d been a “$2000 swindle on the first 50000 copies”. More on brass and Kaolatype stock [MTP].