November 20 Saturday – In Hartford, Sam sent an autographed note to an unidentified person: “None genuine without this label on the bottle” [MTLE 5: 203].

Robert Rutledge receipted Sam $80 for lessons from Nov. 6 through Nov. 20; included with the Clemens girls were Julia and Susie Twichell [MTP]. Note: may have been violin and/or music lessons.

A.B. Pitkin wrote a short note from Hartford to Clemens about an investment [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Subscription of $10,000 to H. Engineering Co acknowledged”; Sam subscribed to $14,500 in the Company, which had invented a new type of steam-powered pulleys. See AMT 2: 490 for more.