January 9 Saturday – The Clemenses rested at Ilsenburg in the Hartz Mountains, where Sam wrote to Annie E. Trumbull. Part of the letter is in German. This part isn’t:

Mrs. Clemens & I have been taking a rest for the past week in this little village, in the parsonage, & last night the pastor & his wife introduced these games. I hasten to Theilen them mit you….We return to Berlin to-morrow to look at the fambly (they are at the Hotel Royal with Mrs. Crane,) but I think we’ll come back here [MTP].

Frank E. Bliss for American Publishing Co. wrote to Sam enclosing a check of $667.74 for all royalties and profits “in full to January 1st, 1892” [MTP].

Also published in The Illustrated News of the World, a second segment of “The Tramp Abroad Again” (New York issue), This is a serial segment using another name for AC. The periodical ran segments on Nov. 28, 1891 and Jan. 9, 16, 1892. The McClure Syndicate had the serial rights for AC prior to its publication by Webster & Co. in book form. This same issue also included a second segment of “At the Shrine of St. Wagner.” Other segments ran on Jan. 2 and 30. [Willson list, Univ. of Texas at Austin].