January 21 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to James R. Osgood. Sam had read all the proofs for LM and Livy had read nearly all of them. Sam related the family’s ills and Susy’s false alarm for scarlet fever. Sam wrote of Stedman being a guest for the following night [MTP].

Donald M. Grant, a Brit in Chumparun, India, wrote a fan letter to tell Clemens “how even in this remote corner of the world your books are known and enjoyed” [MTP]. Note: see Grant’s earlier letter of Mar. 21, 1882 from Ireland, describing himself as an “embryo doctor.”

January 21 Sunday ca. – Shortly after Jan. 21 Sam wrote from Hartford to James R. Osgood. Sam wrote vertically down the pages and pasted an engraving of him in the grave at the top.

“Osgood Knock this picture out. The madam’s orders are peremptory. She says the chapter is plenty dreadful without it” [MTP].