December 7 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Webster & Co. Outlining an offer to Dr. J.H. Douglas for a book “of not less than 200,000 words,” paying seventeen and a half cents per copy for the first 10,000 sales after plate costs [MTP]. Note: This book was noted as rejected on Dec. 5 [MTLTP 236n1].
December 6 Tuesday – Frederick J. Hall for Webster & Co. wrote to Sam asking how many engravings were required for Nathaniel J. Burton’s Yale Lectures on Preaching [MTLTP 238n5].
December 5 Monday – Sam’s twelfth and last presentation to the Monday Evening Club was the reading of a paper titled “Consistency.” [Monday Evening Club].
In Hartford Sam wrote to Andrew Chatto about the tax that the Inland Revenue Office assessed. Evidently there had been postage due on the receipt for the tax.
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).