January 6 Monday – Sam sent another telegram from Hartford to Whitelaw Reid: “Have mailed second & concluding paper” [MTL 5: 266].

Sam’s letter dated Jan. 3, about the Sandwich Islands, “Death of King Kamehameha” ran in the New York Tribune [MTL 5: 264n1].

Joseph L. Blamire for Routledge & Sons wrote to Sam: “Herewith a memorandum of actual disbursements in the matter of the Steam Engine, Stereoscope, &c. wh were dispatched this afternoon…to S. Moffett…. Anxiety to get them in free of Duties &c.” [MTP].