September 27 Saturday – Back home in Hartford Sam wrote to Senator John P. Jones, enclosing more clarification on the “expert’s report on the Mergenthaler machine,” which Sam noted was a “private document,” of which he had a copy.

These facts, added to the fact that those machines will prove wholly unendurable in a daily newspaper office, make the coast clear [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Ladies of the Onteora Club, thanking them for their gift of a picture, “Mort de Léandre” [MTP].

Orion Clemens wrote to Sam thanking for the monthly $200 check. The doctor diagnosed Ma with inflammation of the nerve centers at the base of the brain, but not enough to constitute inflammation of the brain itself. Orion wrote that he finished Wm. II on his historical research, and that the North American Review got his registered MS on the 20th, and he expected it back daily [MTP].