January 25 Wednesday – Sam wrote from Hartford to James R. Osgood:

“If you and Roswell Smith are proposing a new magazine & Howell’s won’t take the editorship, why don’t you offer it to House?…Of course I have said nothing to him of the matter, & don’t know if he could drop his Japanese interests & his Japanese Consul-Generalship…” [MTP]. Note: Roswell Smith (1829-1892).

Sam inscribed P&P to George W. Curtis (1824-1892): “To Mr. George William Curtis, With the great & sincere respect & esteem of the Author. Hartford Jan. 25/82” [MTP].

John Russell Young wrote: “I send you the World with the autobiography of Reid. I will have The Tribune files looked over to see if Mr Walstein’s report is confirmed” [MTP]. Note: all of this was caused by the suspicion (unfounded) that Whitelaw Reid was attacking Clemens in the press, leading Clemens to deliberate on a bio of Reid.