December 9 Monday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam responded to Theodore Weld Stanton’s Nov. 11 and Nov. 17 letters: “Many thanks for your two letters. / Good, we’ll wait till May, & then—well, I hope with all my heart we’ll find him!” [MTP]. Note: Stanton was in France looking for Sam’s “Lost Napoleon” mountain.

Joe Twichell wrote a letter of thanks to Livy for the “altogether delightful time” for their weekend visit.

“To me Mark’s eulogy of the Human Race was like the strain of an Aeolian harp; such was my affection for the speaker. Of course, I didn’t believe a word of it—any more than he did—but I was a charmed listener, and would like to hear it again” [MTP].

William Winter wrote from Staten Island, N.Y. to Sam. He’d rec’d Sam’s “more than kind letter and I thoroughly appreciate your reasons for not undertaking the task suggested by me. It is, of course, a sad disappointment—but I know what it is to be over-worked and hard-driven. I wish it were possible for you to come here, just to see the Memorial Library & sit by the fireside and let me make you welcome…” Winter PS’d a request for Sam’s signed photo he might hang in the Memorial [MTP].