January 2 Tuesday – Sam signed the brief introduction, “A Whisper To The Reader,” to The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins:

Given under my hand this second day of January, 1893, at the Villa Viviani, village of Settignano, three miles back of Florence, on the hills…[Oxford facsimile edition 1996].

James Bennett Gordon for N.Y. Herald sent a note to Sam, advising of the Herald’s Sunday edition with “the best toasts,” for any occasion, and that he was “respectfully requested to contribute a toast, original or otherwise, to this collection. Sam wrote on the envelope, “The Coolest yet” [MTP].