August 22 Tuesday – Pamela Moffett wrote from Fredonia: she’d rec’d his “very kind letter. Orion is trying to arrange in accordance with your wishes to take Ma in the safest and most comfortable way.—arrangements not yet perfected.” She also detailed expenses and showed he owed her $20 [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote, enclosing the illustration made for The Stolen White Elephant. “Your telegram came to hand, but it was most impossible for me to leave as Mr Marsh was away, and we would be stolen blind as well as let business run slack and disappoint customers. / … I will be in Elmira Saturday forenoon early, as Marsh will be here Saturday” He added developments on the Watch Co. stock [MTP]. Note: George N. Marsh.