December 15 Thursday – Sam also wrote to an unidentified man (the recipient’s name has been mostly erased – “Nash”?) on Hotel Krantz stationery: “It is too late. I am sorry, but this article went out of my hands a couple of months ago / Sincerely Yours / SL Clemens” [Weekes Autographs; eBay 180520623000, June 15, 2010]. Note: the sender likely was inquiring about an article for submission to some publication, so was likely an editor. Jodee Benussi caught this one.

Sam added a PS to his Dec. 14 to Richard Watson Gilder:

P.S. 15th He left for Paris yesterday & will sail 8 or 10 days hence. We learned tonight that his sister is the wife of a brother of Princess Clary, who is a special friend of Mrs Bronson and an acquaintance of ours. Mrs. Clemens seems to have the idea that when a person knows a person who knows a person who is married to a person who knows Mrs. Bronson it establishes the respectability and cubicality of all those people. It affects me so, too, though the why of it is one of those elusive things which slip your grip when you try to close on it [MTP].