December 13 Tuesday – Ralph W. Ashcroft wrote “Due back Jan. 6th S.S. Lucania” on a postcard picturing Trafalgar Square, London [MTP].

R. Howard Krause and Mrs., in Kidderminster, England, sent a Christmas card to Sam [MTP].

Katharine Lampton Paxson wrote from Paris, Texas, to Sam. “Your letter gave me such an electric shock that I almost jumped into the middle of next week! It makes me very eager to read ‘The Gilded Age’”. She asked for a copy of the book with his signature [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “From ‘Col. Mulberry Seller’s’ daughter, who learns for the first time that her father was the Colonel / Auto.”