February 1 Thursday – At 2:15 p.m. in New York Sam cabled Livy:

A ship visible on the horizon coming down under a cloud of canvas [MTHHR 20]. Note: As he wrote in his notebook, “The great Paige Compositor Scheme consummated” [NB 33 TS 53].

Also, on Players Club stationery, Sam responded to Frank Fuller’s letter (not extant). He wrote that he was in N.Y. “all the time, but desperately busy,” and promised to look in on Fuller soon. An “old lecture” Fuller has asked about, “was not in existence” — Sam had torn it up.

Stanley made a pretty full report of it for the St. Louis Democrat in 1867. Somebody could copy it from the files. Ys Ever / Mark [MTP].

Note: See Mar. 28, 1867 entry: Henry M. Stanley reported on Sam’s “Sandwich Island” lecture given Mar. 26, 1867. It’s unclear why Fuller would want the lecture copy.

Sam also wrote to Elizabeth M. Millet (Mrs. Francis Davis Millet):

I am publicly & ostentatiously giving out that I am going to Chicago Saturday, (this to frustrate Providence), but the fact is I am coming to your house to dinner [MTP].

Sam sent Livy a second cable timed to be received the next morning, on their 24th wedding anniversary:

Wedding-news: Our ship is safe in port. I sail the moment Rogers can spare me [NB 33 TS 53].