December 27 Friday – Sam and Dorothy Quick had some unspecified engagement for today; see telegram Dec. 25 to Quick.

The New York Times ran “Want Tchaykovsky Free” on p. 8, and included Samuel L. Clemens in a list of about 500 names signed to a petition plea to liberate Nicholas Tchaykovsky (Nikolai V. Chaikovsky), recently arrested for complicity in the Russian revolutionary movement.

Jervis Langdon II wrote to Sam about progress selling the Hope-Jones organs—their first order being for “ten or twelve thousand shouting Methodists” in Ocean Grove, NJ [MTP].