March 17 Tuesday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam concerning how to raise money to pay off Webster & Co.’s bank debts to the Mount Morris Bank. Hall raised $15,000 from personal friends, including the George Barrow family [MTNJ 3: 610n128]. Note: the Barrow debt would prove troublesome during receivership.

Homer Lee of Homer Lee Bank Note Co. wrote inviting Sam’s “delightful presence at the Banquet of the Colonial Cub, Delmonicos’ April 4th at the celebration of the laying of the corner stone on Historical ground.” Sam wrote on the envelope, “Decline it, Brer” [MTP].

Christian B. Tauchnitz Jr. wrote from Leipzig concerned about “a rival enterprise …started against our Continental Series” [MTP].