January 10 Sunday – Sam and Livy returned to Berlin, where Sam would give a reading on Jan. 13 [Jan. 9 to Trumbull; MTB 935].

Joseph T. Goodman’s article, “Artemis Ward,” ran in the San Francisco Chronicle. Joe described Ward’s famous visit to Virginia City, including the Christmas eve walk on rooftops by Ward and Sam [Tenney 20].

Jane R. Harrison wrote from Baltimore asking Sam for ideas for a lecture she was to give for the Woman’s College there on the subject, “Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), the Great American Humorist.” Harrison enclosed a Jan 6, 1892 clipping from the Baltimore Sun on a lecture she gave on Ibsen [MTP].

Alex Fedotoff, a Russian residing in Oldham, England, wrote for Sam’s autograph [MTP].