September 5 Wednesday – Robert Underwood Johnson of Century Magazine wrote Sam: “We accept your proposition and I will write details to-morrow” [MTNJ 3: 387n296]. See Aug 24 to Johnson.

In Elmira Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore. Some stocks, evidently, he wrote, were not salable but he was expecting to see what he might get from a sale of Clear Creek securities.

How much money shall we want, to square up with P&W [Pratt & Whitney] if they finish Sept 24? [MTP].

Sam 25 and Theo Crane 15 in another contest, probably cribbage or cards (see July 5). Note: there are nine entries after July 14 dated only with ditto marks for “July”; then 22 more score entries; then an entry dated Sept. 5, the last day before Crane’s stroke. The two men thus played the game nearly every day throughout the summer stay [MTNJ 3: 475].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam about the Century using part of Sheridan’s memoirs [MTP].