November 23 Saturday – Sam once allowed his name to be advertised with the Loisette memory system, but his short note to Franklin G. Whitmore, likely in response to an inquiry, said Sam had “changed his mind long ago” [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam confirming that copyright laws required that Clemens “be on Canadian soil the day the book is published in England, viz: December 6th” [MTNJ 3: 535n162]. See Dec. 6.

General John Gibbon wrote on Headquarters Dept. of the Columbia, Vancouver Barracks, W.T. letterhead. Gibbon suggested that a book about Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians would make a good book; he was “one of the most remarkable Indians ever known” –What was the feasibility of Gibbon’s project to write such a biography? (Gibbon to Franklin Nov. 23 encl.)

Daniel A. Rose for Rose Publishing wrote to Webster & Co. that they had instructed Sam correctly about coming to Canada for copyright protection [MTP]. Note: this mis-catalogued to SLC.