January 10 Sunday – In Hartford Sam wrote a short note of thanks to Dr. Frank B. Darby, his dentist in Elmira, for sending an “addition” to his “works of art” on Jan. 4.

They are pinned up, in the billiard room & their exceeding ister ingenuity fetches out lots of applause [MTP]. Note: see July 2-10, 1884 entry for time spent in Darby’s dentist chair.

Sam also wrote a two-liner note to James B. Pond, urging him to “give my old friend a date, & do it dam quick” [MTP]. Note: the old friend was Augustus P. Chamberlaine, who was begging for a date for Cable. (See Jan 15 to Pond.)

Sam also wrote a short note to Charles Webster, saying he was sorry to hear Webster was sick; that he’d written Dunham “about the notes” (notes due for production of Grant’s Memoirs) and that “Proofs have just come,” probably for volume two of the same [MTP]. Note: On Oct. 21, 1885 Sam borrowed $100,000 from Samuel G. Dunham, director of the Dunham Hosiery Co. of Hartford, not to be confused with Samuel C. Dunham, Hartford attorney and billiards buddy.