January 1 Monday – After leaving Isabella Hooker’s failed medium party (see Dec. 31, 1876 entry), Sam and Livy went after midnight to the George Warner residence, where they finished festivities and learned of Isabella’s wacky, megalomaniac scheme [Willis 108]. Twichell, evidently did not go to the Hookers on New Year’s Eve, but stopped by the Warners after midnight. From his journal: “led the company in prayer all uniting at the close in the Lord’s Prayer” [Yale 133, copy at MTP].

Sam wrote from Hartford per Fanny Hesse to Victor Wolff, a short note of acceptance as an honorary member of the “Cluster Literary Union” of New York [MTLE 2: 5].

Charles E. Perkins wrote to acknowledge Sam’s check for $752 and credited him $45 to Bissells [MTP].