January 16 Friday – Sam wrote from Chicago to Susy Clemens, thanking her for a letter and asking her to write “two or three times a week in Mamma’s place…What I’m after is to save her” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Orion, thanking him for a “perfect 24 hours there, with the sort of social activity which produces rest instead of fatigue” [MTP].

In the evening, Sam and Cable gave a reading at the Central Music Hall, Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago News, page 2, ran an article/interview making comic remarks to reporters as a way of gaining free publicity [Budd, “Interviews” 3].

E.F. Blanchfield wrote from Chicago, wanting to call on him for information about patents [MTP].

Orion Clemens wrote, deeply grieved by not having set up the carriage to take Sam to the train [MTP].