September 6 Tuesday – Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam. Though the letter is not extant, from Sam’s Sept. 23 reply, some of the substance of Hall’s letter is known. He sent notes, likely from the Mt. Morris Bank for Sam to sign. These were part of the added debt needed to keep Webster & Co. afloat, and to pay for much of the publication costs on a raft of books that Hall chose to publish during the year. Hall offered a plan to send Sam “several hundred dollars a month,” and made a suggestion about Sam’s counter offer of $6,000 to St. Nicholas magazine for serializing Tom Sawyer Abroad [Sept. 23 to Hall].

Note: Sam would see Corbett fight an exhibition in Madison Square Garden and verbally spar with him after the fight (see Jan. 27, 1894).