July 8 Friday – In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore about bills and orders. Sam was also keeping close notice on the Mergenthaler linotype machine on trial at the N.Y. Tribune:

B’goshmighty the Tribune machine (50 of them) are to be distributed among the chief cities right away, & will take contracts to set type FOR newspapers — they ain’t going to trust that machine in the hands of non-experts, you see [MTP]. Note: Sam touted the Paige machine as one anyone might easily learn to use.

Sam also wrote to Hartford merchant, Linus T. Fenn, furniture and furnaces. Only the envelope survives [MTP].

Sarah Knowles Bolton for Bolton’s Realistic Travels wrote from Cleveland, Ohio, glad Sam changed the MS to his liking, and observing the best thing about Sam was his heart [MTP].

Check #  Payee  Amount  [Notes]

3780  Mr. Porter Whiton  237.87  Builder; R.E.

3781  Mssrs B. Altman Co  29.00  Dry Goods