November 5 Thursday – Orion Clemens wrote check rec’d for $155. “Jean’s letter was very interesting. Tell her to write again”[MTP].

Rollin M. Daggett wrote from Washington DC about having Sam publish a book of “fifteen or twenty legends of love, chivalry and barbaric pomp, extending back for over seven hundred years,” he was preparing with King Kalakana of Hawaii [MTP].

J. Chester for Lincoln University wrote asking his help to endow a chair for the study of “Sacred Scriptures” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Damn this humbug. / Wanted an endowment for a chair”

Charles Webster sent a telegram: “See page 4 this morning’s Tribune Thorndike Rice a violation of our contract have written Col. Grant” [MTP].

Jane Clemens wrote to Sam & Family that she found a mislaid letter. Her body was strong but she felt her mind was failing. She felt it wasn’t “best” to give Puss too much money [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From Ma – Read it Livy”