January 10 Friday – Sam wrote to Webster & Co. asking for books to be shipped. His letter not extant but referred to in Webster & Co.’s Jan. 14. Hall was out of the country [MTP].

Charles Ethan Davis telegraphed Sam: “Pump to be made if not delayed any more by La Grippe can be ready without pump in eighteen working days” [MTP].

 Henry C. Robinson wrote to Sam that he had to borrow Annie (Trumbull’s?) copy of CY because he couldn’t find one for love or money, and wanted to thank him for the book “a thousand times” [MTP].

Daniel Whitford wrote, “I enclose check and statement of Prince and Pauper for last week” [MTP]. Note: before House’s injunction was issued, Whitford would send Sam weekly royalties on the play of a few hundred dollars at a time.