September 7 Tuesday – In Elmira Sam wrote a short note to Franklin G. Whitmore in Hartford, sending funds he wished safe-deposited, with notes to Bissell & Co., his Hartford banker [MTP].

The Israel Putnam Monument Commission awarded the contract for an equestrian statue of the colonial soldier to Karl Gerhardt. This came after months of deliberation [MTNJ 3: 253n84].

J. Chester for Lincoln University wrote to Sam:

You may remember that when I saw you, I raised the query, “If the young man whom your money educates would decide to preach, what then?” You replied “If he had grit & gumption, let him do what he thinks the Lord wants him to do”

Chester announced the young man (specified in a later letter as Willis) had graduated among the first in his class of 45 and wanted to study theology. Would Sam still help him? On the envelope Sam wrote, “From a clerical fraud” [MTP]. See Sept. 10 to Chester.

Susan E. Dickinson wrote thanking Sam for his “generous response” for Miss Sade E. Bond and herself, his recent response not extant [MTP].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote that “all hands are having a vacation this week” at Haynes Street, which they needed greatly. “We can afford the time since as we are considerably ahead,” and the men had worked hard on the typesetter all summer [MTP].