December 1 Tuesday – In Berlin Sam wrote to George H. Warner. Livy added a letter twice as long as Sam’s.

My arm broke down on me again, yesterday, but I must steal a minute or two with a pen to thank you for the most prized letter [Nov. 17] I have received in years. I shall dictate a letter to my New York firm now & urge the bringing out of that book in cheap paper-cover form. I have long wanted to make the experiment with that book.

I dasn’t write more — it brings back the sharp pains. This is the delightfulest of cities, & all this fambly unite in warmest regards & best wishes to you & yours.

Livy thanked George for his letter and also for one to Susy. She had just returned from a lecture on German literature from a “German lady professor” (unspecified). “Susy thinks Berlin is too gray but I think she likes it better than she did at first” [MTP].

Sam then wrote to Frederick J. Hall, enclosing George Warner’s Nov. 17 letter and remarks from labor organizer Hotchkiss about a cheap edition of CY.

It has long been and still is, my darling desire to see the Yankee issued in paper covers, without pictures (cheap paper) at 25c a copy — size, 16mo or 12mo or along there somewhere….(Privately, there’s a chapter or two in the book which will make it a good Democratic campaign document next year.) It could be sold in batches to Democratic Clubs [MTLTP 294-5].

Note: Sam cited the sale of 300,000 such sales of Bellamy’s Looking Backward to Nationalist Clubs.

Sam also sent an unidentified person his autograph: As well as it can be done with an arm crippled with rheumatism, this is it: Truly Yours / Mark Twain / Dec. 1/91. [MTP].

Bronson C. Howard wrote to Sam inviting him to a supper at the Lotos Club Dec. 15, 11:30 p.m. to meet Mr. Charles Taylor, the “senior American Dramatist” [MTP].