December 15 Thursday – Webster & Co. Wrote to Sam that his telegram was received asking for a certain kind of paper, which the mills were urged to rush. The prospectus of the Library of Humor was ready, save the bios and the preface; other details discussed about the book [MTP].

George Walton Green wrote from N.Y. to Sam thanking him for taking part in the Nov. 28 Authors’ Readings in Chickering Hall [MTP].

December 15 Thursday, before – Sam’s letter to the editor ran in the New York Herald. In paying homage to Daniel Neall (1784-1846), Philadelphia dentist, reformer and abolitionist, Sam’s letter was signed “Mark Twain” and included the first verse of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem, “Daniel Neall” [MTP].