November 16 Friday – At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote to Frank Bliss.

Frank Doubleday (whom you know well) of 111 East 16th street, got this furnished house for me, & I am immensely obliged to him. Therefore I want to present him with a set of the Ordinary Uniform edition of my books….

Mr. Rogers says you didn’t give him that London photo of me—I mean the large one made by Walter Barnett. See if you can’t find it. He wants it, & I have no other [MTP]. Note: this note confirms at least part of Dias’ claim that Frank N. Doubleday was instrumental in finding 1410 W. 10th for the Clemenses. See Oct. 27 entry.

Sam also wrote to H.H. Rogers, forwarding William Gillette’s Nov. 15 about royalties (see entry), and the contract. Would he please look them over? Sam would sign them “Next Monday when I return from Princeton.” He noted a doubtful point in the contract: “it seems to put no time-limit upon Huck, but only on Sawyer” [MTHHR 455].

Sam also wrote to an unidentified man, declining an invitation:

It is not in my power to accept, my list being now as full for some months as I can venture to make it, & so I have not added anything to it during the past fortnight. I beg that you will convey my best thanks for this honor which this invitation does me, & also my regret that I am obliged to deny myself the pleasure of accepting it [historyforsale document 85103 accessed Sept. 13, 2009].

At 3.55 in the afternoon Sam went to Princeton, N.J.. and stayed with the Laurence Hutton family. This time he left Livy and the girls in N.Y.C. His Nov. 6 to Matthews stated he was to be there the “16th, 17th, 18th to “umpire the football game,” but newspaper accounts show he was merely a spectator, if a recognized and famous one. His Nov. 19 to Cook reveals he stayed at Laurence Hutton’s home [MTP; NB 43 TS 29]. The N.Y. World article of Nov. 18 which follows reveals Sam was given an informal reception this evening at the Hutton home.