January 31 Tuesday – Livy also wrote a short letter to Susan L. Crane complaining of “rheumatism or gout in the back,” that nothing seemed to help. She was going to try Sam’s gout remedy [MTP]. She added to the letter on Feb. 1 and Feb. 2.

January, late – Sometime in late January, Sam and Livy wrote to Pamela A. Moffett, who then wrote her son, Samuel Moffett:

I received a letter from Sam and Livy a few days since. Livy had just learned through a letter from Molly that I was “far from well.” Sam found Livy’s unfinished letter and wrote the second page. He said they were all pretty well, and tolerably cheerful, but all worked to death. But it was good for them to be busy [MTP: Paraphrased from Pamela Moffett to Samuel Moffett Feb. 6]. Note: A letter from Sam and Livy in Vienna would have taken at least 7-10 days to get to Pamela—& she places it “a few days since,” dating the Clemens’ letter to late Jan.