Sunday
Dear Charley—
If you are to ‸be‸ absent from New York any more than 48 hours, don’t go to Fredonia. S Have somebody up do the packing under Annie’s supervision. After all our efforts & all our hopes we are going to have a brief canvass at last. Your canvassers are not all secured yet—yet we have but 5 or 6 weeks left before publication. Bliss never issued an octavo for me with less than 43,000 subscribers. I was expecting to beat Bliss this time. Our main harvest has got to come before the issue of the book; so I strongly advise against the Fredonia trip. Your personal presence in New York is worth that of a dozen Marshes or other subordinates at this most important time.
Your aunt Livy is not getting along fast; is very weak, & wasted to a shadow. Gains a trifle of strength in the daytime, & loses it again at night through loss of sleep.
Ys T[r]uly
S L C
At the TS T. S. meeting there were about 60 stockholders. They ga conferred full powers on the Directors to raise capital, &c. Page was brought to book—that is, made to stand up & distinctly say he knew the machine to be now flawless. A capital of $1,000,000 was proposed to be raised. I get these details from Whitmore, who was present.
Source text(s):Previous publication:
MTBus, 211, as “Sunday,” without date specified.
Provenance:
see McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenance.
