November 9 Saturday – In Hartford Sam wrote for Livy to his mother-in-law, Olivia Lewis Langdon.
…we have been having good times ourselves — a perfectly delightful visit from David Robinson & Miss Nelly; a visit with only one defect — it was too short. They are restful people, & a comfort in all their ways.
Livy & the children have spent the most of this evening up stairs rehearsing a variegated program of Susie’s devising for Thanksgiving. Jean plays a part in it. As I was not inserted, I suppose I shall have to get up a shindy of my own & invent it for myself.
Livy has been grieving because the chops were burned & the Robinson’s breakfast spoiled thereby; but I told her it would make them the better satisfied with their own home. Such things are providential; they are sent for a good & wise purpose [MTP].
Sam’s notebook notes a letter and contents sent to Dean Sage, now an Albany businessman:
Nov. 9 ’89. Offered to D.S. by letter, to sell him a 1-45th of my future stock at $25,000, & put up 50 royalties as security; or two 1-45ths for $50,000, & put up 100 royalties as security. / Will offer at double these figures hereafter [3: 527&n144].
The Haberdasher, Jos. W. Gibson, Publisher sent Sam a clipping that appeared in “the current number” of the magazine. The clipping related Sam’s “inventive genius” in a shirt requiring “neither buttons, studs, nor button-holes” [MTP].
Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that the Mt. Morris Bank was complaining that Webster & Co. did not keep large balances there; Hall felt the bank was safe and the best one to keep deposits in [MTP].
Rev. John J. McCook (listed as professor at Trinity College in the 1886 Geer’s) wrote from Hartford to Sam: “Greatly obliged for the reminder. I shall surely go. My eldest son, who has fallen heir to a few shares was there a few weeks ago and I seriously think the sight of that machine has done more than the Books on Evidence to make it easy for him to believe in a Creator.” McCook also congratulated Sam on CY. The envelope was addressed to J.W. Paige [MTP].