January 2 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “San Remo—4 rooms & bath, $125 to 150 a month, ohne Nahrung.[without food] / John Tablock,[sic Tatlock] jr 32 Nassau” [NB 43 TS 4]. Note: in his Apr. 20, 1900 to H.H. Rogers, Sam wrote they might stay at the Hotel San Remo, N.Y.C. upon their return to America.
January 1 Monday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam replied to Will M. Clemens (incoming not extant).
December 31 Sunday – Clara and Jean Clemens “danced till 1 o’clock this morning, seeing the Old Year out & the New one in” [Jan. 1 to Hutton].
December 30 Saturday – An anonymous review of IA in Author’s Edition Deluxe ran in Athenaeum (London), p. 897. Tenney:
December 26 Tuesday – In London, England Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.
If you approve, won’t you please send the enclosed to Harry Harper & see what comes of it?
December 22 Friday – In London, England Sam added a second PS to his Dec. 21 letter to Katharine I. Harrison.
I’ve withdrawn the Harper letter, & hereby enclose it to you, as his letter was to you, & as I don’t know what may have been happening in the Harper affairs since Harper wrote his letter (Dec. 4). …
December 21 Thursday – In London, England Sam wrote to J. Henry Harper.
I return the list of articles for the 2 vols. You will notice that I have made a couple of small transpositions. The arrangement as it now stands, seems to me to be good.
I think it may be well to advertise the fact that the “Peanut Stand” (with original unaffected and unstudied drawings of great merit) and half of the “Xn Science” paper have not been published before [MTP].
December 19 Tuesday – In London, England Sam wrote to James M. Tuohy, London correspondent of the N.Y. World.
I forgot. I am barred by the arrangement which I made lately & which I mentioned to you in a note.
However, I should be barred anyway, by my set policy of not appearing with frequency in print.
December 18 Monday – Somewhat before this date, Mr. & Mrs. Louis I. Seymour sent a fold-out Seasons Greetings card (with only their signature) picturing Capetown, S. Africa’s harbor [MTP].
December 16 Saturday – The Saturday Evening Post anonymously published an article “Mark Twain as a Cub Pilot” [Tenney 29].
Elizabeth Davis Fielder’s article, “Familiar Haunts of Mark Twain,” ran in Harper’s Weekly p. 10-11.
Tenney: “A description of Hannibal, Missiouri, with several photographs, including ‘Laura Hawkins as a girl’ and the ‘Hannibal of Fifty Years Ago.’” [30].