January 31 Thursday – Life Magazine ran a cartoon   of Mark Twain sitting “on a barrel of cigars and smoking, with text praising him in general terms for his good humor and his attacks on folly and vice” [Tenney: “A Reference Guide Sixth Annual Supplement,” American Literary Realism, Spring 1982 p. 10]. Note: compare this to the Dec. 21, 1905 cartoon in Life, celebrating his 70 birthday.  

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Chinatown and the beads. / The King’s watch is gone” [MTP TS 25].

Jervis Langdon II wrote to Sam on Hope-Jones Organ Co. of NY and Elmira letterhead, asking him to sign and return enclosed papers in complying with the law in the matter of organization. They were already building an organ for Troy, N.Y and expected other contracts [MTP].

Laura J. Kreps wrote from Pittsburg, Penn. to ask Sam to “revise or help” with a short story she and her daughter had written that had been rejected by two editors [MTP].