December 20 Friday – Sam’s notebook: “Must be at home–Clara” [NB 44 TS 19].
In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam replied to Elisabeth Marbury’s Dec. 19, his letter not extant but noted on hers:
“Dec. 20/01. / Wrote her to give them 80% & me 20%” [MTP].
Sam inscribed a copy of FE to Robert B. Cone: “To / Mr. Robert B. Cone / with the compliments of / The Author. / Riverdale, Dec. 20, 1901. / S.L. Clemens / [cross-signed:] Mark Twain” [MTP].
Isabel Lyon replied to a letter (not extant) from Mary B. Trask of Vassar College. See Dec. 30 to Trask.
Nelson Hersh, assistant editorial manager of the NY World wrote to Sam in reference to the book The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg (full text not available) [MTP].
Frederick A. Duneka of the NY World wrote to Sam.
In reading over the other evening some of the stories collected in the volume with “The Man Who [sic] Corrupted Hadleyburg” I was greatly interested in the story of he Telelectroscope…. / The point now is that we should like very much to get your consent to the republication in The World of your Telelectroscope story. Harper & Brothers are willing , provided we can obtain your permission [MTP]. Note: the story: “The Austrian Edison Keeping School Again.” Sam answered ca. Dec. 21