November 6 Friday – Frank Fuller wrote from Madison, NY. About being lied to by a solicitor that Clemens would “take charge of this magazine,” Literary Life. He then wrote of a financial scheme [MTP].

** Belle C. Greene wrote from Nashua, N.H. “Your kind letter in relation to my book ‘A New England Conscience’ makes me wish I had chosen a more cheering theme. I did not mean to be so disagreeable. I think you and Mr Savage should be boon companions—perhaps you are?” She was planning a volume of humorous sketches and would send him a copy as “an antidote” for her first book [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “An author”

Edward O. Sharpe (1862-1942), minister in Watseka, Ill., wrote asking how to “get loose” from P&P, as he could not “let go of it. I read it and it won’t stay read. Some how or other, that miserable Tom Canty keeps following me and scratching my imagination until I am forced to go with him again through his troubles….Can you not devise some remedy for my trouble [?]” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Compliments Prince & Pauper.”

Charles Webster wrote all about Charles Allen Thorndike Rice publishing Col. Grant’s book in violation of their contract. He’d persuaded Grant to their cause though he’d already taken funds from Rice; it wouldn’t matter, Webster advised—they could get an injunction [MTP].