January 21 Saturday – Sam’s notebook on Webster & Co. Bank balance: Jan 21 — 9,798. Sam also wrote:

Mr. Crane bought four drawing room for 11 a.m. They sold him 4 for 9 a.m. Mr. Halstead redeemed ($1 apiece) C’s 2, but Clara already had hers. She took the 11 am & found her tickets no good. These tickets were sold for a train which was already gone [MTNJ 3: 368].

William Mackay Laffan for the N.Y. Sun wrote, “Saturday, 28th 3.40 p.m. from Jersey City, to Baltimore to spend Sunday at WT. Walters’…Likewise great environment of terrapin and ducks. /Now don’t fail and wire me on Monday a.m. your entire complicity” [MTP].

Mary B. Cheney wrote from South Manchester, Conn. thanking Sam for the “timely notice of Browning changes” (reading group). She enclosed the constitution of the Art Society — could she put his name down as a member? [MTP].