December 3 Saturday

Check #  Payee  Amount  [Notes]

3922  Mr. Charles Burghart  68.00

3923  Mr. James A. Jenkins  2.75

December 2 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Cordelia Welsh Foote from Cincinnati:

December 1 Thursday – From Sam’s notebook, another co. bank balance: 16,196.78 [MTNJ 3: 357].

Charles J. Devlin wrote to Sam on Spring Valley Coal, Ill. letterhead thanking Sam for books [MTP].

Check #  Payee  Amount  [Notes]

3913  Patrick McAleer  50.00

3914  John O’Neil  60.00

December – Sam’s article, dated Nov. 6, 1887, “A Petition to the Queen of England,” ran in the Dec. issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, p.157-8. [Budd, Collected 1: 922].

November 30 Wednesday – Sam’s 52nd birthday.

Orion and Mollie Clemens finished a letter to Sam and Olivia, which they began Nov. 29 [MTP].

November 29 Tuesday – Sam had that unspecified “morning business” meeting in Hartford he wrote about to Fairbanks on Nov. 25.

In the evening the Clemenses gave a dinner party of Senator and Mrs. Joseph Hawley. The guests included the George Warners, Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner (Susan), Koto House, Mary Barton, Ward Foote and Joe Twichell [MTNJ 3: 353&n171].

November 28 Monday – Sam and daughter Clara left Hartford on the 12:30 p.m. train for New York. If he acted on his plan written to Fairbanks on Nov. 25, he then went to his office, did a bit of work and went to his reading (perhaps with Mary Mason Fairbanks).

November 27 Sunday – Livy’s 42nd birthday.

The New York Times, p.5 ran a short announcement of Sam’s reading for the following day:

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November 26 Saturday – From Sam’s notebook, another co. bank balance: — 9060.97 [MTNJ 3: 353].

November 25 Friday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Mary Mason Fairbanks in New York that he planned to leave Hartford Monday, Nov. 28 on the 12:30 p.m. train, then go to his office at 3 East 14th Street, and then to Chickering Hall to give a reading at 2 or 2:15 p.m., depending on the office business. After the lecture he intended to take the 4:30 p.m. train home in order to “meet a business engagement next morning (Nov. 29).