January 15 Tuesday – Sam’s notebook: “Why’dn’t you go to hell? There’s no Irish there. / Corey & portraits of Lincoln & Washington. / Won’t you for Christ’s sake pass the butter / Hit him for pie” [NB 44 TS 3]. Note: William Ellis Corey (1866-1934), capitalist and steel executive, who began his career at age sixteen and in 1903 succeeded Charles M. Schwab as president of U.S. Steel 1903-1911.

The New York Times, p.5, “Lincoln Birthday Address,” announced that Henry Watterson was to be the chief speaker at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 11 and that Mark Twain was to introduce the speakers. Watterson was a cousin by marriage of Clemens.