May 20 Monday – Edward P. Clark for N.Y. Evening Post wrote acknowledging Sam’s his letter of the 18th and check for $25 toward the Welch Memorial Fund [MTP].

Dean Sage wrote to Sam that he and Parsons would go and inspect the typesetter and if satisfactory would buy some stock in it. He also reported meeting Francis Hopkinson Smith Saturday night [MTP].

Charles H. Taylor for Boston Globe wrote to Sam (clippings on the Mergenthaler Linotype & W.N. Haldeman to Taylor May 17 encl.). “I enclose a letter from the Courier-Journal showing their experience with the type setting machine, also, for fear you may not see it, an article from the N.Y.Tribune of yesterday on the subject” [MTP]. Note: See May 13, 20, 21 for expense specifics Sam was after.