January 27 Monday – Sam’s article on John E. Mouland’s award, “British Benevolence,” was published in the New York Tribune [MTL 5: 282n2].

January 27 and 28 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Michael Laird Simons (1843-1880), who was compiling a new edition of the Cyclopaedia of American Literature, which came out in 1875. Sam suggested portraits of himself published in Aldine and elsewhere. Charles Dudley Warner prepared the biographical information. Sam wished to be presented in “two lights”—humorous, but with a “good background of gravity & of earnestness” [MTL 5: 283].