September 22 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Orion. He wanted to know more about compositor rates in small towns and the country—what did the fastest man set in 7 ½ hours? He was sorry to hear that his mother was not well [MTP]. Note: Sam wanted this information because the “foreman of the N.Y. Sun” told him some very high em rates were now required, and Sam was calculating how much savings the Paige typesetter offered a newspaper.

Frederick D. Grant wrote another small card that he would be in NY by Sept 28 [MTP].

R.L. Blakeman wrote from Troy, NY with criticism of the French translation of The Jumping Frog [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “! ! Singluar ass.”

William Tecumseh Sherman wrote from St. Louis, having rec’d Sam’s telegram and letter of Sept. 19. “The MS/ss of which I wrote you is all ready and after submitting parts to the Rev’d Dr. Eliot, President of Washington University in this City—I will land the whole to you per Adams & Co” [MTP].