November 17 Monday – Sam wrote to Joe Goodman in Fresno, letter not extant but referred to in Joe’s Nov. 24 [MTP].

S.F. Fleharty wrote two one-page notes to Sam about the “Street car incident” and firing of the conductor in N.Y. “Please don’t visit New York again! Chicago, with the World’s Columbian Exposition and Theo. Thomas in her embrace, yearns for you.”; Fleharty resented the way the N.Y. Tribune had made fun of Sam in the incident (See article Nov. 11) [MTP].

A.A. LeRoy wrote from New Paltz, N.Y. to Sam with the pithy: “I hope it isn’t true” and enclosed a clipping from the N.Y. Tribune dated Nov. 11, “Mark Twain’s Letter” [MTP]. Note: copied in Nov. 11.

William M. Stewart wrote to Sam (enclosed in Hall Nov. 8) [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote to Sam with details of their two new books, A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge., and Inside the White House in War Times. Sam’s note on the envelope reveals this typed letter was from Hall, but it is not signed by him as was usual [MTP].