November 4 Wednesday – Sam wrote a letter from New York City to Annie Eliot Trumbull, daughter of Hartford historian and philologist J. Hammond Trumbull, who wrote the multilingual chapter epigraphs for The Gilded Age. The Trumbulls were family friends. The letter was entirely in German [MTP].

Robert B. Porter wrote from Bloomington, Ill., enclosing a small pamphlet on the Longfellow Club. Porter was to give a talk on Mark Twain and wanted to know if Twain was “original” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Infernal”