December 14 Saturday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam about books offered the firm and his ideas for each: Henry Clews’ Twenty Eight Years in Wall Street; an authorize biography of Jefferson Davis by Colonel Scharf; and History of the Supreme Court of the United States, author not named [MTP].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote to Sam advising him to wait till Senator Jones got to Washington; he enclosed Gen. John J. McCook’s letter. He suspected the Hoffman House people thought Whitford had been trying to serve legal papers on Jones [MTP].