June 18 Monday – Sam wrote from Elmira to Charles Webster. Sam anticipated a suit about the “strawberries interview” about Duncan, and directed Charley not to say anything to George Jones  (1811-1891), one of the founders of the New York Times.

“There is not a sentence in the interview that ever issued from my mouth. There are two or three parts of sentences, but no complete one. As a rule the interviewer has invented both the ideas & the language” [MTBus 215].

Sam also wrote to Charles E. West, declining an invitation to the 70th birthday celebration for Henry Ward Beecher [MTP].

Henry C. Robinson wrote, clippings enclosed, “The Life of Man” by Robert J. Burdette in Phila. Times. Henry thought there were “some good phrases in it” that might interest Sam. He wished they might have a game of billiards [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote about business matters: Duncan’s suit [MTP].