January 2 Monday – Edward House and daughter Koto arrived for a visit. Sam inscribed P&P to Koto, House’s adopted Japanese daughter: To / Koto House / With the affectionate regards of / The Author / Hartford Jan.2, 1882 [MTP]. Note: in his Dec. 27 to House Sam announced Koto would get the China paper edition.

Sam also wrote to Charles Webster:

“Dear Charley— Make me a copper stamp. I am on track of a way by which you can harden it afterwards, & make it as hard as brass. I hear this from the head of the Bank Note Co.” [MTP].

Sam also inscribed P&P to an unidentified person: “Yours truly, S.L. Clemens (Mark Twain). Hartford, Jan / 2, 1882” [MTP].

Jesse M. Leathers wrote from NYC to Sam having taken his advice not to write for a year. He’d requested aid from a “prominent Southern gentleman” to travel to Europe for his claims, and wanted to visit before he left [MTP].