December 8 Tuesday – Sam wrote a short note from Hartford to Orion, sending $25 and a Christmas greeting, saying the money represented,

“…what they would buy & send you if they warn’t so dam busy” [MTP].

Sam also wrote, or allowed to be written in his behalf, from Hartford to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, declining an invitation to some event [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Brander Matthews, declining an invitation to a wedding. Sam wrote they would have “company arriving the 16th, & we don’t know how long they will stay” [MTP]. Note: the wedding was for Alice Learned to Henry Cuyler Bunner.

Sam also wrote a 2-liner to James B. Pond, who had written asking for a picture of Sam. He was fresh out of pictures but suggested Pond get one of “those made by Sarony”—whoever Pond wanted it for, Sam had told them that Pond would get them one [MTP].

Ross R. Winans wrote, declining to invest in the Paige typesetter [MTP].

Boston Globe per Walter E. Decrow wrote wanting Sam to contribute a signed editorial [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Pleasantly proposed—but I could not accept”