June 11 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Webster, telling him to:

See that you go for Wannamaker [sic] — otherwise I will go down there & rise up in his Sunday School & give him hell, in front of his whole 3000 pupils [MTP]

Note: John Wanamaker (1838-1922), Philadelphia retailer and Postmaster General for Presbyterian Benjamin Harrison, was selling General Grant’s Memoirs below cost for advertising reasons. Wanamaker’s Bethany Presbyterian Church Sunday school was one of the largest in America. He is considered the father of modern advertising, but clearly Sam was not impressed. Wanamaker’s Dept. Store, considered the first department store in Philadelphia, claimed many firsts — the first department store with electrical illumination (1878), first store with a telephone (1879), first store to install pneumatic tubes to transport cash and documents (1880), and the first store with an elevator (1884).