December 7 Sunday – Sam wrote another short note from London to Livy. He’d rehearsed his “Roughing It” lecture and thought he’d enjoy it. He asked if she got his telegram from Queenstown, and said that Bliss needed to “hurry up the book” if he was to copyright it in England [MTL 5: 495].

Prentice Mulford (“Dogberry”) wrote to Sam: “I shall be happy to receive the ticket & comply with your invitation to breakfast on Tuesday Morning. I thank you for the kindly tone and sympathy in yr note. It gives me fresh strength to renew the contest” [MTP]. Note: from this context it seems Clemens replied to Mulford’s Dec. 6, but no reply is extant.