December 3 Saturday – The official U.S. publication date for Prince and the Pauper [Nov 9 letter to David Gray, MTP].

In Canada, from Sam’s notebook: McShane & Stephens were both elected.

Snowing lightly—girls slipping down everywhere, sidewalks so icy. —on their way to school.

This is the foulest hotel in some respects in Am.

So many pretty girls—never were so many in one town before—beauty of girls, & of little children of both sexes so common as to be almost monotonous—but then one has the occasional relief of the other sort—or one can look in the glass [MTNJ 2: 413-4].

Charles Webster wrote to Sam about taking the party of interested investors to Hartford. He added John A. Green of the NY Times to his prior list (see Nov. 26 entry). The group was “highly pleased” with the machine and the tests employed [MTP].