July 12 Saturday – In Onteora Park, Tannersville, N.Y., Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore. The letter is lost [MTP]. Receiving Joe Goodman’s challenge of July 11, Sam left for New York City. He checked into the Hoffman House [MTNJ 3: 562n253].

William O. McDowell wrote to Sam for permission “to quote, in a pamphlet….excerpts from the pages on ‘Freemen’” in CY, and asked Sam to send an answer to an “enclosed letter suggesting a Pan Republic Congress.” Sam wrote on the bottom of the letter, “Brer, tell him to make the extracts — & say I am not feeling well enough to write” [MTP].