December 11 Friday – In Berlin Sam wrote to Rudolf Lindau of the Foreign Office, thanking him for a dinner which was “too delicious & too exquisite in every way for sinful human beings.” The date of the dinner is not specified, though it was social protocol usually observed by the Clemenses to send a thank you note within a day or two of such events. Since the dinner was in Berlin, a good estimate would be Dec. 9 or 10. Sam had been preparing a corn cob pipe for Lindau’s nephew by soaking it in whiskey. He also confided the receipt of a note from William Phelps:

…he has appointed Dec. 18 for my reading in Dresden. I told him I would read if he wouldn’t go with me & keep me from getting lost on the way — so I suppose he is going [MTP].

Ward H. Lamon wrote from Berlin to Sam with his reaction to “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].

Faye Wheeler wrote from Tacoma, Wash. to Sam with her reaction to “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].