January 6 Tuesday – Sam wrote a short note of thanks from London to George H. Fitzgibbon, introducing John McComb of the Alta California [MTL 6: 14].

Sam also sent a note to Routledge & Sons ordering a copy of The Gilded Age be sent to John Russell Young, to whom Sam then wrote a short note on this day or the next at midnight.

“I forgot the name of the hotel where we have just dined…but I drank a glass of water just before I left, & that is fatal to memory, you know” [MTL 6: 15].