June 6 Saturday – Case & Rathbun wrote to Sam: “Your telegram duly rec’d, also to-day, order for shirts [half dozen] with slight changes, and order for 200 cigars which we send to-day by express” [MTP].
June 5 Friday – Owen S. McKinney wrote to Sam. This is what the MTP calls a “ghost letter,” being referred to somewhere but with no known text. It’s possible this will surface in time [MTP].
Mitchell, Vance & Co. wrote from NYC to advertise their “large stock” of gas fixtures [MTP].
June 3 Wednesday – From Charles E. Perkins ’ cash book, Sam’s account: “To po Insurance 50 + 10 60” [Berg collection, NYPL].
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