November 8 Monday – Eleanor V. Hutton (Mrs. Laurence Hutton) wrote to Sam, enclosing a five-page typed discussion of Helen Keller from Dr. Louis Waldstein’s book The Sub-Conscious Self. They were touched by Sam’s poem in Harpers to Susy, “In Memoriam” [MTP].

Joe Twichell wrote to Sam having rec’d his of Oct. 23 , to his “extreme comfort and delectation.” He asked that the distance between them not lead to dropping their friendship.

I haven’t been so tickled for a year as I was by the speech you found yourself making when you woke out of the dream. But you needn’t have called it indelicate. To be sure I wouldn’t have repeated it to a lady. Neither would I jump ship before a lady. Yet there is nothing indelicate about that process. The sacred historians do not shy the mention of it. See I Samuel 25:22. Nor the prophets; see Isaiah 36:12. But this isn’t Sunday, and I’m not going to preach you a sermon.

Joe also mentioned Sam’s reference to the political turmoil in Vienna, and related some articles “written some while since by that odd but accomplished genius Forrest Morgan for ‘The Travelers’ while he was editor of it.” The picture of Twain in the Nov. McClure’s Joe thought “far and away the best yet” [MTP].