June 19 Wednesday – Sam’s notebook:

June 19, 1889 [gave] Susie L. Crane a paper agreeing (upon surrender of said paper) to deliver her paid-up stock representing a One Five Hundredth of the whole of the capital stock “of the company which is to be organized to manufacture, & sell or rent Paige Compositors under the (American) patents, so soon as such company shall be formed & begin the issue of stock [”].

After some remarks of F W [Whitmore], concluded to say nothing about his project & let it drop [3: 493].

Frederick J. Hall again wrote to Sam about securing a book from Henry M. Stanley. Hall was willing to go meet Stanley. “I am glad you wrote through Chatto a letter to Stanley and I hope Chatto will realize the importance of getting it into Stanley’s hands at the earliest possible moment.” He suggested Sam telegraph Chatto as well. Hall did go to England but was unsuccessful in gaining American rights to Stanley’s tale of the expedition. In Darkest Africa was published in 1890 in England by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; and in the U.S. by Charles Scribner’s Sons.