September 28 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Frank Fuller.

“ want you to run up here & stop over night & let me tell you how I think you can make a considerable stack of money”[MTP].

Sam’s notebook contains an entry about Fuller putting Paige’s telegraphic invention on the market. Sam wrote on Nov. 11 that he’d dropped the scheme. (See MTNJ 3: 181n12.)

Orion had gathered information for Sam about the work rate for newspaper compositors in the Keokuk area (see Sept. 22 entry); he reported that they averaged about 1,000 ems per hour for seven and a half hours, and that one boy consistently did 1,200 ems per hour [MTNJ 3: 202n64]. This was information Sam needed to calculate the savings to a purchaser of the Paige typesetter.