October 9 Tuesday – In Hartford Franklin G. Whitmore wrote for Sam to Frank Bliss, sending a receipt for $569.50 and advising that Bliss was correct to send both the statements and checks directly to Sam, not to the Webster & Co. [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Christen Thomsen Christensen, manager of the New York office of Drexel, Morgan & Co., the noted banking firm, answering his Oct. 8 letter. Sam was still working during the days at Joe Twichell’s, a strategy to get more done on his book than he would have at home.

I shall be very glad to see any friend of yours, & shall make Mr. Cavling welcome. Just at present I am in strict hiding, a mile from home — during the daytime — finishing a book. But I am at home all the evenings, after half past 6. …if he should happen to prefer Friday evening, which is my billiard night every week, he can take a cue & help me fight the rest [MTP]. Note: Sam received Henrik Cavling in Hartford on Oct. 22 [MTNJ 3: 427n64].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam that he’d send a bag of hickory nuts when they came in — one to Hartford and one to Elmira for Theodore Crane, who he was glad to hear was better; he was also glad to hear a good account of the typesetter. “Ma talks often of you. She is fond of doing so whenever strangers interrogate her….she said suppose the machine should fail?” [MTP].

American Publishing Co. receipted Sam for an unspecified amount [Mentioned on page in MTP financial file: Yale, Morse Collection p.8].