July 11 Wednesday – Franklin G. Whitmore wrote Sam:

I ordered 12 Memorandum books of the Plimpton Cy. for you at a cost of $11. This is about as cheap as they can be gotten up & made first class as per your own as sample [MTNJ 3: 390]. Note: Sam’s style of notebook was one he developed. Here the maker was the Plimpton Manufacturing Co., Hartford.

Sam 37 and Theo Crane 11 in another contest, probably cribbage or cards (see July 5) [MTNJ 3: 475].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam of a “small hitch” in the Sheridan matter — one of the selections Mr. Burlingame (for Scribner’s) made in the MS was unacceptable. The Scribner people were “very persistent” and Hall had to write Sheridan asking him “to telegraph us that under no consideration must we allow the ride to Winchester [segment] to be published.” Other books were touched upon [MTP].