November 22 Sunday – In Berlin Sam wrote to Chatto & Windus.

That Clemens in the last column of names, was an ancestor of mine, & much thought of by the family because he was the first of us that was hanged.

If Tauchnitz comes to see me on business I shall refer him to you [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Frederick J. Hall, enclosing proofs for two of his Europe letters, “Playing Courier” and “Paradise of the Rheumatics.” He asked Hall to send three copies from the newspapers of “At the Shrine of St. Wagner” so he might send one to Henry Labouchère, editor of the English magazine Truth [MTLTP 293].

The N.Y. Times, p.3 “Russia’s Appeal Refused” ran a squib about copyright in Germany and Sam’s lunch crowd:

Mr. Houghton, the Boston publisher, has been trying to inform Germans about the operation of the American copyright law. He finds them prejudiced. The Germans, he says, cannot appreciate the advantages of enterprise.

“Mark Twain” gave a luncheon for Mrs. Hancock, Minister Phelps and many other notable Americans.

Charles D. Hobart wrote from N.Y. to Sam; another reaction to “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].

Franklin G. Whitmore wrote to Sam, thanking him for a card “even though it was but a word.” He had made sure that Harper’s would be sent. Last Thursday he met “JW Paige and Steve Rogers riding & stopped them for a moment –to shake hands. JW Paige said that Mr. Gerhardt had been in to his office to sell his royalty to him.” Whitmore passed on Paige’s claim that the typesetter had 15 million in capital support. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Nov. 91 — Paige wants to buy all my royalties” [MTP].