December 23 Friday – Attorney John Larkin wrote to Sam, clearing up matters of the transfer tax on the Tarrytown property on Livy’s estate. He had had “considerable correspondence with Mr. Jervis Langdon” on the matter and prepared “additional affidavits which I believe will satisfy the transfer tax appraiser” but Sam would have to swear to an affidavit before a notary and return the document to Larkin [MTP].

A.G. Paine wrote to Sam, enclosing a letter from Frank L. Norris, who wished for “a fitting memorial of an author whom I have grown to love”—in other words, an autograph. Paine wrote that Norris was “a sincere fellow, possessed of taste and judgment, as his letter shows” [MTP].