November 4 Monday – Thomas B. Doolittle wrote from Minneapolis, Minn. to Sam. “I wish that you would quit looking like me. It annoys me very much and besides, it appears by the enclosed anonymous verse that I am handsomer. /  Yours truly” [MTP]. Note: clipping enclosed with Doolittle’s picture, “Inventor of Telephone Exchange Apparatus and Telephone Wire.” Also the picture of Twain on the Sunday Magazine, Record-Herald, Chicago.

Ferris Greenslet for Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston wrote to Sam. “I find that my chapters on Aldrich in New York are going to take me over there the latter part of this week to stay a week or ten days…I should like very much to have the advantage of a talk with you, and to show you a letter or two of yours written back in the 70’s, which I should like with your permission to print…”  [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “Have to arrange by telephone”

Belle R. Parsons wrote from Soldiers Home, Calif. to suggest and urge that Sam dramatize JA for Miss Maude Adams, who she felt was “the very embodiment of your Joan” [MTP]. Note: Lyon wrote on the letter, “Dramatizing is not among my achievements” and “ No one seems to be able to put any action into a Joan of Arc play”

November 4? Monday – An unidentified person (J.E. Williams?) wrote to Sam “Dear Twain / You will have the block on Saty without fail / yrs …Send for it [MTP].