February 1 Wednesday – Isabel Lyon’s journal#2: Mr. Clemen’s preferences for new members to the national Institute of Arts and Letters.

• Charles Francis Adams
• Horace Howard Furness
• Edward Everett Hale
• Joel Chandler Harris
• Henry Carey Lee
• Silas Weir Mitchell
• Ernest Thompson Seton[MTP TS 3-4].

Thorvald Solberg for the Library of Congress wrote to Sam and/or Samuel E. Moffett c/o Collier’s Weekly, acknowledging Moffett’s letter of Jan. 25, that the number of copyright entries between July 10, 1870 and Dec. 31, 1904 was 1,569,800 [MTP]. Note: Moffett was securing statistics for his uncle Sam.