January 16 Wednesday – Webster & Co. notified Sam that the stock of several old volumes had been sold to Watson Gill; also, that Gill had included an order for 50 of Mrs. Custer’s book, Tenting on the Plains [MTLTP 252n1,n3]. Hall added, “We have the daily report system running now & so far it works finely. We know precisely where we stand now daily [MTP].

R.P. Salter of the Harlem Southern Auld Lang Syne Soc. wrote to Sam advising the Hotel Brunswick banquet had been changed to a dinner at Moretti’s Jan. 20 at 6 p.m. [MTP].