January 6 Wednesday – Anna L. Cunningham wrote to thank Sam for the box of chocolates [MTP]. Note: “Telephone girl”

Frederick A. Duneka wrote twice to Sam. The first to thank him for his “little article on the new Planet, and for your note to Colonel Harvey. We will fix the Planet story up for the Weekly in attractive shape—pictures and all that, unless you disapprove.” The second note: “I enclose a telegram [see below] just received. We have acknowledged its receipt and said it had been forwarded to you” [MTP]. Note: “The New Planet” first appeared in Harper’s Weekly for Dec. 1909, p. 70-71 [Budd, Collected II p. 875-6]. The planet would be called Pluto; in the 21st Century would be broken in rank to something less than a planet.

The National Press Club sent a telegram to “Samuel L. Clements” [sic] c/o George Harvey, Harpers.” The jist of the one page message was to ask Clemens to “talk twenty minutes or a half hour” on Feb. 2 “on any subject you prefer,” for the purpose of raising funds for “larger quarters” for the Club [MTP].

John Davenport O’Connor wrote from Chicago to ask Sam for a loan of $15 to buy a typewriter to “make presentable” his stories and plays [MTP]. Note: “Ans. Jan 12. M.L.H.”; “Would like to be able to & the vast number who write to borrow money of him, even small sums, but it is impossible”