December 29 Friday – In he morning Sam went to his copyist’s house to obtain the missing batch of his manuscript for LM. He discovered she’d had scarlet fever, and they’d had to disinfect the pages. Sam wrote from Hartford to James R. Osgood, enclosing the eighth batch of his manuscript for LM and advising him to “give it another good disinfecting before you meddle with it, or let your children get ahold of it.” The Clemens family was in quarantine, so he asked Osgood to “telephone Fairchild” and send his thanks [MTLTP 160].

Hartford Engineering per Joseph M. Stoughton sent printed minutes to the last Stockholders meeting on Dec. 26. Clemens was listed as having 145 shares [MTP].

Charles de Kay wrote from NYC to Sam: “I have the honor to inform you that you have been elected to the Authors Club” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Chas. de Kay. Answered”