February 13 Monday – Dan Slote died. The New York Times obituary of Feb. 14:

Daniel Slote, the well-known blank-book manufacturer and the “Dan” of Mark Twain’s “Innocents Abroad,” died yesterday at the house of his mother, No., 111 East Fifty-fifth-street. Mr. Slote was for eight years a member of the New York Board of Education under the old system of Ward Commissioners and had been closely connected with the cause of education all his life. He was a member of the old volunteer Fire Department, and also served his time in the Militia as a member of the old State Fencibles. At the time of his death he was a member of the St. Nicholas Society, the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, the Olympic Club, the New York Yacht Club, the old Prospect Park Fair Ground Association, and Howard Lodge of Masons. Mr. Slote was for 20 years the head of the old firm of Slote, Woodman & Co., and in later years of that of Daniel Slote & Co. He married about 15 years ago a daughter of ex-Alderman James Griffiths, who survives him with their two young children.

Charles Warren Stoddard wrote from Honolulu to thank Clemens for P&P, which had just arrived.