September 12 Tuesday – In New York Sam wrote Livy on Sept. 13 about seeing Frank Fuller:

Livy, darling, I was passing by Frank Fuller’s foodery yesterday [Sept. 12]. & was inspired to run in & see him. He was writing. He was writing the enclosed letter, & had just got to the place where I have inserted a star*. So he read it to there, then said he would go on & finish it, as he knew exactly what he had intended to say. He finished it & I brought it away [MTP].

Sam and Dr. Clarence C. Rice attended a matinee performance of Dan’s Tribulations at Harrigan’s Theater, west of Broadway on 35th Street. Sam reported it to Livy:

Dr. Rice & I went to Harrigan’s last night [actually, only a matinee] for an hour. Saw one of his old pieces, where the nigger ball is broken up by the fire — by all odds the funniest scene that was ever put on the stage I think. You & I saw it together once, I guess [Sept. 13 to Livy; NY Times, Sept. 12 p.7].

Sam wrote to daughter Jean on Sept. 13 that he and Dr. Rice spent “an hour at the theatre and two hours looking at people play billiards.” Sam took a train to Hartford, and wrote in that same letter to Jean that Will Gillette was on the train. Sam arrived at 7 p.m. He wrote about the “15 hours of my stay in Hartford” to Livy in his Sept. 13 letter (#04447):

Bunce & Robinson & I talked for an hour in Robinson’s parlor, but arrived at no scheme — except the very simple one of not trying to raise it. Money can not be had, at any rate of interest whatever, or upon any sort of security, or by anybody. Bunce told of a Chicago millionaire who offered a preposterous interest for a loan of $600,000, offering as security $2,400,000 worth of real estate in the centre of Chicago — — & he couldn’t get it. [Note: It may be that Sam’s trip, evidently unplanned, was to take the temperatures of these men to see about securing loans for Webster & Co.]

Sam wrote that he was a guest of the Edward “Ned” Bunce’s but hadn’t seen Mrs. Bunce in his 15 hour stay — “she is not strong enough to see any one” [Sept 13 to Livy].