January 10 Thursday – Richard Malcolm Johnston answered Sam’s note about arriving in Baltimore incommunicado: “I will meet you at Union Station, take you to my house, and keep you as hid treasure safely from all inquisitions” [MTNJ 3: 443n117].

January 10 Thursday ca. (on or after) † – In Hartford Sam wrote to Webster & Co. that he’d just received their letter of Jan. 9. Sam addressed several business issues in a brief note — he didn’t want to publish a book by a Mr. Thayer; he was agreeable to a proposition of a $5,000 advance to Watson Gill; he recommended enclosing a catalogue in every book, and putting advertisements of their full list of books in the back of all books published, unless Stedman objected (on Library of Am. Lit.) [MTP].

Sam read over the new contract with Frederick Hall as partner. He wrote of it the next day.