December 3 Monday – The German class met at the Clemens home and Livy wrote, “Mr Clemens did not retire to the billiard room. I think that speaks well for Miss Corey” [Livy to King Dec. 4].

Emily I. Maurer wrote from N.Y. “to settle a discussion,” what was the origin of his name? [MTP].

Murat Halstead for Cincinnati Commercial Gazette wrote to Sam asking for “ten or fifteen words” opinion on a book he proposed, entitled, “The Journeyings of a Journalist” [MTP].