January 14 Sunday – In New York at the Players Club, Sam wrote to Poultney Bigelow, thanking him for the “pat on the back.”

Your letter passed through Mrs. Clemens’s hands several weeks ago on its own way to me, and she naturally thanks you too, since you confirm her own judgment. She is head critic over me and Court of Last Resort, and she made me pull the story to pieces and do it over again before she would allow it to be printed. [PW?]

Sam added that Bigelow should receive the letter right before sailing for New York in February, and gave him his address at the Players.

…and you’ll let me know, when you arrive, so that we can meet-up again and talk of Gmūnden and the prospects. It is possible that I may fly Parisward in the meantime…[MTP].

Sam also wrote a short note to Frederick J. Hall, reassuring him that a “blunder” was Franklin Whitmore’s, not his, due to Whitmore’s “idiotic disposition to discard” Sam’s “language & substitute his own, which never has any intelligible meaning.” The matter is not specified [MTP].

Sam also inscribed his picture twice to Hall, one dated Jan. 14 and one Jan. 15 — see latter entry.

Sam also wrote to Annie E. Trumbull, praising the play and her performance in it. “I was never so entirely proud & satisfied as I was last Wednesday night” [MTP].

Interestingly, the Boston Daily Globe, p.31, “A Bad Baby” ran an excerpt of the PW serial from the January Century in just one full-length column.