February 7 Saturday – Albert Levering’s article “The Man Who Corrupted Eddyville. Being Some Account of the Troubles which Beset Mark Twain During His Quest for Mrs. Eddy’s Book,” ran in Harper’s Weekly, p.215. Tenney: “A cartoon sequence in which several Christian Scientist booksellers and Mary Baker Eddy herself refuse to sell or give a copy of Science and Health to MT, who appears disguised as various characters from his books” [38].
William D. McCrackan wrote from NYC to Sam. “I am very much touched by your note of yesterday, just arrived. I cannot show myself worthy in a measure of your conduct without returning at once the two letters, which I enclose. Perhaps you will allow me to treat this as a demonstration of love on your part, and ask you to remember of these letters that ‘they never happened.’”[MTP]. Sam wrote on the env. “McCracken is a very fine man.”