January –Samuel Wyatt wrote from Berks, England to offer three pages of verse after reading JA [MTP].

Broadway Magazine (later Hampton’s Broadway Magazine) ran an anonymous article, “Horace Ezra Bixby, Mark Twain’s Boss” in the January issue [Tenney 46: The Twainian, Dec. 1939]. In his 3rd supplement, Tenney added the following: “In interview with Bixby, who said, ‘Some people infer that Clemens was not a good pilot, but he was a first class one. He adapted himself to the river from the start and was as good a pupil as I ever had under me.’ Bixby told reporters all the stories he knew about MT a long time ago. ‘Now when the reporters pester him for them he gets peevish. ‘I wish Clemens was dead, then maybe you fellows would let me alone,’ he says.” “ Includes photograph: ‘Horace E. Bixby. Nearly forty years a river pilot and still at the wheel’” [Tenney, ALR Third Annual Supplement to the Reference Guide (Autumn, 1979) 193].