June 25 Wednesday – New York Times, June 25, 1890, p.6 “Help Wanted – Males”

COLLEGE STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AGENTS

And all who desire work for the Summer months wanted to secure orders for “The Great War Library” in ten volumes, embracing the works of Gens. Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, McClellan, Crawford, Hancock, and Custer; sold on easy monthly payments. We will pay you at the rate of $60 weekly for one order per day. For agencies and further particulars call on or address Charles L. Webster & Co., 3 East 14th St., New York.

Through Franklin G. Whitmore, Sam answered Mackenzie Bell’s June 12 request for biographical information. Sam responded that nothing more could be added to Routledge’s Men of the Time article [MTP]. Note: Bell (1856-1930) published numerous books, articles and poems. Seven linear feet of his papers reside at UCLA.

Sam also responded to Charles Fairbanks, son of Mary Mason Fairbanks about a newspaper article that upset Mary.

Tell her she mustn’t bother with such things; they are not worth it. It is my inflexible rule to be satisfied & content with anything & everything a newspaper may say about me so long as it confines itself to statements that are not true. I have never seen an opinion of me in print which was as low down as my private opinion of myself. Of course that is something of an exaggeration, but there is a great big element of fact in it, nevertheless [MTMF 265].