December 26 Saturday – In Berlin Sam wrote a “Happy New-Year!” to Frederick J. Hall:

PLEASE RENEW MY LETTER OF CREDIT! / Expires Jan. 7.

The second installment of “Playing Courier” ran as “The Tramp Abroad Again: II. Playing Courier” in The Illustrated London News on this day and also Dec. 19; the piece also ran as “An Innocent Abroad: Playing Courier” in the San Francisco Examiner. In 1893 it was collected in The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other Stories [Budd, Collected 1000]. Note: Budd points out “minor differences among all three versions.”

Dorothea Lummis wrote from N.Y. to Sam with reaction to “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].

J.C. Valentine wrote in a very shaky hand from N. Monroeville, Ohio to Sam with reaction to “Mental Telegraphy” [MTP].