December 9 Thursday – In Vienna, Austria, Livy wrote to Chatto & Windus, who evidently had asked for clarification about the little book containing “Meisterschaft” she had requested on Dec. 2. Sam thought it might be in the book of sketches containing “The £1,000,000 Bank Note,” or perhaps in The Stolen White Elephant. , If it wasn’t in any English volume, not to bother further with it [MTP]. The sketch, originally written for the family’s entertainment, was in neither volume, but appeared in the 1892 Merry Tales. ,

Harold Goodwin for Current Literature Publishers Co. wrote to Katharine I. Harrison and Mark Twain, “greatly touched” by Sam’s efforts and considering the debt owed by C.L. Webster & Co. to them as settled [MTP].

Sam’s completed the essay, “Stirring Times in Austria” [Neider, Essays 235n4].