30 May 1881 • Hartford, Conn. (MS: NPV, UCCL 01962)
Here are some notes which I made a week or two ago. I send them because one of them is worth thinking about (the suggestion that perhaps money of mine was used to pay K debts incurred before I purchased).
We go to the Montowese House, Branford, Conn. next Saturday June 4.
over Ⓐemendation
Notes.
The Vice Pres’t, must, at a meeting of the Co to be called, deliver a full inventory of the $3000 worth of material which he transferred to the Co;
Also, show that ◊ the K. came to us free of debt;
And if not free, that no money of ours went to paying debts;
Show vouchers for every dollar paid out since organizing, & be responsible for unvouched payments;
If the thing had $3000 worth of plant, why did it need $1000 a month to run it when it had already been in operation 2 years?
Must yield up his stock to pay for unvouched outlays.
Must give his note for one-half of all that the brass business has cost.
C. must talk with McL. & get his story.
Must know if the $10,000 went to Goff intact, or if there was a “division & silence.”
Nealey must be questioned as to this.
Was the sum for which S. was to “strike” me agreed upon on the way up here?
Is D afraid S will peach? Is that what makes him stick so close by S., & give his interest his sole support?
SLC began a letter on 1 May, which he canceled before rotating the page 180 degrees and reusing it for his “Notes”; the canceled words appear upside down in the present letter:
Yours received.
the last three sentences of the present letter were written between the lines of the canceled letter fragment:
Why did he pay S after first week of April? Was he afraid to stop?
Collect from Herald and former publishers of Galaxy.
MS, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MTBus, 157–58.
See McKinney Family Papers in Description of Provenanceclick to open link.