December 13 Tuesday – Funk & Wagnalls wrote offering Sam $1,000 for ten articles (1500 words each) on “The People I have Met,” or “Several Chapters From my Life” [MTP].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
3936 E. Steger & Co. 0.80
3937 Estes & Lauriat 3.60 Boston Bookseller
3938 Mr. A.A. Welch 4.00
December 12 Monday – Charles J. Devlin on Spring Valley Coal, Ill. letterhead acknowledged receipt of Sam’s letter and that they were transferring the books “over to the K. of L. Library” [MTP].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
3935 Mrs. J.H. Barton 30.00
December 10 Saturday – From the New York Times of this date, p.4 (See also Nov. 7)
KNIGHTS OF THE ORDER OF PIUS
December 9 Friday – From Sam’s notebook, another co. bank balance: 15,076.79. Draft & notes due, $554 [MTNJ 3: 359].
Check # Payee Amount [Notes]
3933 Mr. James Quin[n] 40.00 RR Agent
December 8 Thursday – In Hartford Sam answered Orion Clemens’ Dec. 5 letter. Sam felt he’d never given an interviewer or biographer any information that he wanted to someday put in his autobiography; he hated “all mention of my private history, anyway.
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: