August 27 Saturday – In Elmira Sam answered advice from Franklin G. Whitmore, with a two-line note. Sam wouldn’t sell some bonds as he’d contemplated, and told Whitmore that his “judgment is correct” [MTP].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam: “Thurs rec’d: I will attend to the billiard table business today. Mr. Paige has orders from the patent office, photographs or photolithographs of the plates sent him, for the purpose of foreign patents & for your own use — cash $299.50.” Charles E. Davis estimated the costs for the drawings and patents to be $1,125 per month for two or three months [MTP].