August 18 Wednesday – Sam and Henry C. Robinson and other stock holders “turned over the Water Closet concern to Mr. Day, to have & to hold, for better or worse…” [Aug. 19 to Hall]. Note: the company referred to may be the Beech Creek RR.

Frederick J. Hall answered Sam’s Aug. 17 letter about Mrs. Almira Hancock:

We have no agreement with Mrs. Hancock, as the affair was not in definite enough shape to make one [MTLTP 203n2] Note: Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock was published by Webster & Co.

D.[?] T. MacGowan wrote from Shanghai, China, mis-addressing the letter to Sam at New Haven. He wrote about discovering “square bamboo” suitable for walking sticks and may have included one. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Send to Prof. Baird (New Haven?) for cane” [MTP].