December 18 Wednesday – At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Isabel V. Lyon replied for Sam to George L. Beam of the Denver & Rio Grande R.R. Co, Denver, Colo. “Mr. Clemens asks me to write for him & thank you for sending him the photograph & pamphlet. And to use his own words, he said, ‘Tell him I think it is a good strong clean-cut face & I hope it looks like me as that is the way I should like to look’”[MTP]. Note: Beam’s photo and pamphlet are not extant.

Isabel Lyon also replied for Sam to the Dec. 17 of Charles R. Morris: “He has quoted the only sentence of the speech that I remember, & I don’t know anything about the rest of it” [MTP].

John Larkin wrote from NYC to Sam. “In reply to the inquiry made of me by Miss Lyon, the payment of $25,000. to be paid you by Harper & Bros. under the contract made … on the 23rd of October 1903 continues for five years from that date, after which you will receive a royalty of 40%. So far as I know there has been no change in the contract in this respect” [MTP].

Elisabeth Marbury wrote to Miss Lyon about the Hadleyburg contract with Mr. Hendrie; Mr. Marburg had no rights to the play [MTP].

Eden Phillpotts wrote from Torquay, England to ask Sam if he might dedicate “another Volume of Schoolboy stories entitled ‘The Human Boy Again’” [MTP].

Dorothy Quick wrote to Sam.

My Dear Mr Clemens / I am waiting for Saturday when I shall see you most impatiently but it will soon be here   please write to me when you have time   my Teddy Bear is sitting on top of the dressing table and he has just fallen down and is hanging on with one leg and is in danger of falling on the floor any minute   it is snowing here now   I have been to Bache and am waiting for an answer   I have not been to school for one week and am not going this week as I have a cold and mama is afraid to let me go to school for fear I shall take more cold   hopeing to see you on Saturday   with lots of love / I am / your loving / Dorothy / P.S. Please give my very best love to Miss Lyon but keep some for yourself [MTAq 86].