January – “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” first appeared in two installments in Harper’s Monthly for Dec. 1907 and for Jan. 1908. It was published by Harper as a book in Oct. 1909 as Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.  Budd points out that Twain worked on various versions of the story at multiple times—in 1869, 1870, 1873, 1878, 1881, 1883, and 1893 [Budd Collected 2: 1013].

At 21 Fifth Ave, N.Y. Sam drafted a telegram to Robert J. Collier at 752 Park Ave., N.Y.: “WILL MAMMA GO WITH YOU & ME TO BERMUDA IN FEBRUARY? SAY YES. / CLEMENS” [MTP].

Hill writes of the antagonism between Isabel Lyon and Albert Bigelow Paine, and of Samuel Moffett’s call at 21 Fifth Ave. sometime this month, when she told him (quoting from Isabel Lyon’s diary):

When I said the King was distressed to know that Paine had copied quantities of the King’s early letters, that Paine gave him to understand that it was the King’s particular wish that he should have them. The King said last night that the next thing Paine would be getting letters from Howells, and he proceeded to write Mr. Howells asking him not to comply [Hill 201].

Note: Sam wrote Howells on Jan. 22 telling that Moffett had been giving his letters to Paine, and asking Howells not to give Paine the letters he had; Howells replied on Feb. 4 that it was too late; he’d already done so. See entries. Given the date of Sam’s request to Howells and his concerns, it would seem that Isabel’s entry and Moffett’s visit would have come around mid- January at the earliest. See also Feb. 26 for Lyon’s account of telephoning Paine about missing letters.

Sam inscribed a copy of TS to J. Freeman Lincoln: “To J. Freeman Lincoln—Happy New Year, Mark Twain” [MTP].  

Carlotta Welles (“Charlie) wrote from Paris to send New Year wishes. She often thought of him and his kindness on the S.S. Minneapolis and doubted she could come back to America in the spring [MTP].