December 1 Thursday – Date of British copyright secured for The Prince and the Pauper [MTNJ 2: 403n165].

In the evening, Sam wrote from Montreal to Livy. Sam and Osgood had been:

…guests of a clergyman, Rev. Mr. Bray, who gathered a dozen bright men together at a luncheon. I have been made temporary member of a club, but have not been there yet…I won six dollars from Osgood to-day, in a game of billiards, & to-night he won nine dollars of me. I shall have all his money before I get done with him. Take it all around, we are having a pretty good time. I go to bed early & get up early. The fire is made at 7.15; the barber comes in at 8, & we breakfast at 9. The weather has been foggy, muggy, rainy & warm for a couple of days; but it is clearing off now, & if to-morrow is a fair day we go to Quebec in the afternoon & return to Montreal on Monday [MTP].

Louis Fréchette wrote to Clemens. See Sam’s Dec. 4 to Livy for what this letter contained [MTP].

Charles Webster wrote that he’d been so busy with the typesetter matters that he’d had no time to test the brass castings. He was going to Hartford with potential investors in the morning and would return in time to do a brass test [MTP].