November 5 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to U.D. at the W.K. Carson Co., Baltimore, Maryland. U.D. had evidently asked for a biographical sketch. Sam referred him to the listing in Men of the Time, by Routledge, or Allibone’s Dictionary of Authors  [MTLE 4: 125].

Sam also wrote to his old guide, Joseph Very, letter not extant but referred to in Verey’s Dec. 16 reply.

Sam also wrote to James W. McDaniel of Hannibal, boyhood friend, congratulating him on some 25th anniversary [MTLE 4: 126]. “Jimmy McDaniel, Sam’s own age, was envied because his father kept the candy store…‘He was the first human being to whom I ever told a humorous story’ ” [Wecter 142].