September 30, 1886 Thursday

September 30 Thursday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall, employee of Webster & Co., asking that $6,000 be sent and charged to his account. Hall, who wrote Sept. 29, informed Sam that 418 satisfactory answers had been received from the 1289 circulars sent to daily newspapers asking for compositor rates. P.B. Bromfield was handling the task [MTLTP 208]. Note: MTNJ 3: 252 lists Bromfield, Newspaper Advertising, 21 Park Row, N.Y. and that Bromfield furnished about a third of the requests for information. Sam felt this was a “much better result than could have been prophecied [sic].”