January 19 Wednesday – The Jan. 31 bill from Western Union shows a telegram sent to Loman? on this date, recipient unspecified (see that entry).

James Wells Champney wrote to Clemens.

Your note this morning was handed me just as I was in the midst of our engrossing lecture on “Bones”: I set my lovely skeleton on one side, broke the seal, read the card and scribbled an answer in a most informal way. I was very sorry not to be able to have granted the hour’s interview but my days at Hartford, as Miss Perkins will tell you are crowded with duties from 9 A.M. until I take the 3.48 train. I expect to spend next Tuesday night at Mr. Chas. Perkins and perhaps it will not then be too late to see you… [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Champney, artist”

Jane Gray Swisshelm wrote from Chicago to Clemens, basically a fan letter and apology for enclosed clipping, in which her publisher Jansen, M’Clurg & Co. of Chicago quoted Sam’s praise (no date) of Half a Century (1880) by Swisshelm [MTP; Gribben 681 (mistakenly as 1880)].