December 5 Thursday – Two bound copies of Connecticut Yankee were deposited with the U.S. Copyright Office [Hirst, “A Note on the Text” Afterword materials p.28, Oxford ed. 1996].

Under the headline, “THEATRICAL GOSSIP.” the New York Times ran an article on page 8 about the dramatization of P&P.

Mr. David Belasco has begun the rehearsals of “The Prince and the Pauper,” the dramatization made for Daniel Frohman of Mark Twain’s book by Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson. The play is to be first given at the New Park Theatre, Philadelphia, Christmas week, and will be presented there for a month. It treats of the adventures of the young Prince, and Mr. Belasco is bringing out clearly the dramatic elements of the story. One of the interesting features of the play is the double impersonation of the two parts by Elsie Leslie. The company engaged includes Annie Mayor, Nelly Howard, Dora Leslie, E.H. Vanderfelt, Arthur F. Buchanan, Frank Tannehill, Sr., D. Gilfeather, Arthur Elliot, George Pauncefort, and William Tibbitts. Many others are employed in the performance. The costumes and scenery are of the Elizabethan period and are designed by W.H. Day. The play will be subsequently done at the Broadway Theatre.

Karl Gerhardt wrote to Sam: “Your kind offer is not forgotten; I am working with the end in view that I may be able to close the matter satisfactorily by the 25th to the 30th of DECEMBER…P.S. Please have enclosed receipt attached to policy…now in your possession” [MTP]. Note: Gerhardt had given a cash-value life insurance policy in exchange for a typesetter royalty.