January 29 Friday – Sam was in New York City and enjoyed a birthday dinner party for H.H. Rogers, “a pretty large one, for it is a big family when they all get together” [Jan. 31 to Sturgis]. Note: this would be HHR’s last birthday.

In Redding, Conn., Mary L. Howden (“Miss Mollie”) wrote for Sam to an unidentified woman. Jan 29.

“1) Dear Madam / X thank you for your kind letter and for sending the verses which he is glad [ ] to see. He wishes me to say that he is sorry not to be able to answer your letter with his own hand but his correspondence is so voluminous that it is impossible for him to attend to it personally” [MTP].

Gerald Keith, a high-school student in Brockton, Mass. wrote to Sam perplexed about the footnote in Ch. 20 of RI about the 16th chapter of Daniel in the Bible [MTP].

The Republican Club of New York City wrote to Sam, having rec’d the print back of the Quaker City, and advised he’d purchased the print from J.B. Bradley dealer on the corner of Nassau and Liberty Street for $5. Evidently Sam had inquired as to the source [MTP].