December 1 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Dinner 730 Mrs. De Forest / 7 Washington Sq. / Meet Artist Zorn & wife” [NB 43 TS 30]. Note: source indicates Livy made this entry. Anders Zorn (1860-1920) Swedish painter, sculptor, and printmaker, became internationally famous. His wife, Emma Amalia Zorn (born Lamm; 1860-1942).

In N.Y.C. Sam inscribed a copy of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches to an unidentified person: “We ought never to do wrong / when people are looking./ Truly Yours / Mark Twain / Dec. 1, 1900” [MTP].

John Y. MacAlister wrote to Sam enclosing statistics of Plasmon sales from Jan. 1 to Nov. 30, 1900. The Plasmon prospectus would be ready on Monday and they’d get it out in a fortnight. He added a personal note:

Please let me have a line or a cable, if only to let me know that you have not been knuckle-dusted by that cabman. I admire your spirit but tremble for your safety, for you are starting out in this crusade with only two of the qualifications of your friend the Colonel. You have his originality and his pluck, but you forget that he could lift a big conductor under the jaw and put him on the side-walk and I don’t think you could [MTP].