December 8 Thursday – In Florence Sam wrote to Arthur G. Stedman, son of Edmund C. Stedman, employee of Webster & Co. and the general editor of the “Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series,” which included Merry Tales, and also editor of Walt Whitman’s Autobiography.

Your kind note just received. I haven’t a sketch in stock, nor text of one; but luckily I forgot to ask Mr. Hall to send “The Californian’s Story” to a magazine. Tell him to hand it to you. If he should need anything to supply its place in his book, let him put in the Harper article about an ancient Medical Dictionary…[MTP]. Note: Dec. 12 to Hall reveals the story lent was for Arthur Stedman’s Author Club Book.

Daniel Willard Fiske was a guest at a late dinner party at the Clemenses [Dec. 15 to Hutton].