December 11 Monday – Stewart L. Woodford (chairman of the dinner committee) wrote from NYC on US attorney’s Office notepaper asking what train they might expect him, and offered to secure a hotel for him [MTP].

Julian Hawthorne  (1846-1934), son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a prolific author and journalist in his own right wrote from NYC to Clemens. “Here are Longman’s threatening to send me up to Canada to secure their copyright” [Vassar]. Note: Longman is a publishing co. established in England in 1724.