September 23 Friday – In Florence, Italy Sam wrote to Frederick J. Hall, responding to his Sept. 6 letter (not extant; see entry). Sam enclosed notes with which to borrow funds from Mt. Morris Bank, discussed Hall’s plan to send monthly payments if “several hundred dollars” to him, and offered thoughts about how to proceed on the typesetter issues, as well as a short discussion of the family situation:

I wish you would continue your talks with Mr. Knevols [sic Knevals] & get out of him all that he knows about the Webster type-setting contract in Chicago. It may be that he has seen the contract for the building of those machines & can give you exact details. I have lately learned something about it — enough to make me cable Robinson to stop the sale of my royalties to Mallory. I intend to keep them. We have just arrived here from Bad-Neuheim — left there about two weeks ago, but had to make sort stops and long rests, because Mrs. Clemens had headaches which continued night and day & kept her in constant torture. Keep in touch with Knevols if you can for the next 12 months. It is very important. Yours. SLC [MTP from City Book Auction catalogs, Apr. 24, 1948 item 104]. Note: the Knevals brothers — Caleb B., Lambert, and S.W. — See Dec. 7, 1893 entry; also MTHHR 12.