January 9 Saturday – The Armstrong Assoc. of New York, per May Hurlburt sent Sam tickets for a box at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 22 [MTP].

Diana Belais, President of the New York Anti-Vivisection Society wrote to ask Sam for a letter of introduction to Harpers, as they were in “a terrific fight …against the Medical Society of New York, which has banded indissolubly to crush out our movement” [MTP].

Before Jan. 9 – New Yorker Staats-Zeitung sent an engraved invitation to dine and meet Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, ambassador of the German Empire. Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. at the Manhattan Club [MTP].