November 6 Thursday – Katherine (Kate) Foote wrote to Sam thanking him for a book (unspecified) sent for an Indian boy; she would let the doctor take it to the reservation and would let Sam know what the boy thought of it [MTP].

Cecilia Fosbery wrote from London to Sam; she met him four years before while staying at the Hotel Capitol in Hartford with her father, who was doing work at the Colt factory. She asked Mark Twain for his autograph for the wife of Dr. Hutchinson Tristram, “a very well known man…He wants one of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s” — was it possible? [MTP].

James T. White & Co., publishers, N.Y. wrote to Sam acknowledging his “esteemed favor” (letter) about preparation of a sketch of his life for the proposed National Cyclopædia of American Biography, specimen page enclosed (showing Chauncey M. Depew’s sketch on one column) [MTP].

Daniel Whitford wrote to Sam sending a form for him and Livy to sign. The form is not enclosed but is described by Whitford as “the best that can be done” to “hold against your creditors,” and so appears to have been some sort of a transfer of assets should creditors come after them, which, ironically was ultimately done in 1894. Sam wrote on the envelope, and a note from Whitmore to Whitford also in the file to the same effect: “Brer, return it to Whitford & say Mrs. Clemens who did not know of the project, refuses to allow it to be done. / SLC” [MTP].