August 2 Sunday – Beginning this night or the next, Sam stayed seven nights at the Normandie Hotel, returning home Aug. 10 (see that entry).

E.V. Satterfield wrote from Mt. Vernon, Illinois, agreeing with Sam about the final resting place of Gen. Grant being in NYC. “P.S. Mt Vernon Ills. is away down in Egypt and the writer of this is a printer by trade and a lawyer by profession and practice, and never have been known as a very ‘shining light’ at either” [MTP].

Ella Lampton wrote a begging letter “on account of my child” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Neither read nor answered—a woman who has been all her life a coarse, vain, rude, exacting idiot. / SLC”

Samuel Moffett wrote “If I could carry out your idea, nothing would suit me better. At all events I shall make the attempt, and see what luck I have” He doubted his ability to write on a subject Sam had suggested (see July 21 to Moffett) [MTP].