November 22 Saturday – Katy Leary (1856?-1934), the Clemens family’s longtime maid, wanted to telegraph Livy to return home. Young Jean Clemens was seriously ill; Dr. Kellogg agreed that Livy’s return was needed. Clara Clemens, now sixteen, overruled Katy and the doctor, arguing that Livy could not withstand such an arduous trip home from Elmira while her mother lay dying [Nov. 26, 27 to Livy].

Frederick J. Hall wrote two letters to Sam, the first forwarding a letter from William M. Stewart, San Francisco who wrote for Rollin M. Daggett, (in view of his “long acquaintance” with Sam). Daggett was impatient for his Hawaiian Legends book to be published. Hall wrote the letter was “nonsense from the beginning to the end. We did sell Mr. Daggett’s book by subscription.” Over 100 copies were sold and Hall felt it was not a book that could be sold by subscription: “…it is not of enough general interest” and that “At present we are out of pocket $1640.78” on the book.” Hall thought they should offer Daggett all the copies and plates of the book if he would make this loss good. [MTP].

In his second note, Hall wrote he’d seen Thomas F. Shields, the fired conductor who said he’d been reinstated [MTP].