January 24 Friday – In Bombay, Sam took the stage for his first “At Home” lecture in India at the Novelty Theater, 5:30 p.m. to an enthusiastic and “crowded house,” with “a party of ladies and gentlemen from Government House,” mostly an audience of Europeans, but “with a large number of Parsees present — to say nothing of a good sprinkling of Mahomedans and Hindus” [Ahluwalia 9: Bombay Gazette, Jan. 25]. The crowd, consisting of “almost every prominent citizen of Bombay,” gave Sam “round after round of loud, prolonged, and enthusiastic applause.” Sam was still a bit hoarse.

Livy finished her Jan.17 letter to Sue Crane:

Absolutely the most fascinating place I have seen, and for a week I have been trying to write you about it, but could not snatch a moment. Social life and sightseeing all the time — breakfasts, teas, dinners, balls. / Livy [MTP].

The New York Times, p.4 ran an article about the identity of the “Joan of Arc” papers.

When the series of papers entitled “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc” began to appear anonymously in Harper’s Magazine several months ago, word came from Hartford that the author was Mark Twain. The statement at the time was printed in the New-York Times. It now appears that the report was well-founded. In Vol. VI. Of the “National Cyclopedia of American Biography,” published yesterday, appears of sketch of Mark Twain based on material furnished by himself, in which these papers are named as the last work thus far published by him.