January 26 Sunday – In the evening William Dean Howells left the Clemenses and Hartford, catching the train “just as it began to move” [MTHL 2: 628]. Howells wrote his father on Feb. 2, apologizing for failing to write “last Sunday,” this day: “I had been at New York, and I stopped to see Mark Twain at Hartford and we talked much all day” [MTP: Life in Letters of William Dean Howells, p.1 Doubleday, 1928].

Dr. George T. Stevens wrote from N.Y. to Sam concerning his examination of Livy’s eyes, enclosing “the formula which is for concave glasses of the strength of those she now uses combined with [illegible word] prisms” [MTP].