September 4 Saturday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall about the George Washington Walling book (see Sept. 3 entry). Sam wanted Webster & Co. To publish the book and suggested a twenty-cents per volume sold royalty, rather than a lump-sum purchase. Sam was also concerned about a libel suit in publishing the book, and advised that their attorney Daniel Whitford “read & mark the worst of the libelous passages for expunging.” If those terms were unacceptable the firm could wait for Webster’s return [MTLTP 206]. Note: Whitford had been a Fredonia lawyer, now with the prestigious New York firm of Alexander & Green, Webster & Co.’s attorneys. “Webster evidently disapproved, for Recollections of a New York Chief of Police was published in 1887 by the Caxton Book Concern, the publisher originally interested in it” [MTNJ 3: 256-7n97]. (Editorial emphasis.)

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam: “Yours of the 1st inst. With enclosures rec’d.” Expenses on the type-setter for the month of August were $869.55; half month Pratt & Whitney’s bill, $937.10; patents $349.40, totaling $2,156.05 [MTP].