December 14 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Dinner, Hutchinson” [NB 44 TS 19].

In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam replied to Harper’s Dec. 14 by writing on it:

“Dec. 14. In talk with the Major, he thought that only the Detective Story should be in the book—thought it could be filled out to $1.50 bulk with marginal drawings” [MTP].

William Dowling’s article “Twainiana” ran on p. BR15 of the New York Times. It was an anecdote laid to Joaquin Miller in Sam’s days in San Francisco, relating to how poor he’d been at one time there.