January 3 Tuesday – Sam wrote from Buffalo to Joseph Twichell, praising Charles Dudley Warner’s new book, My Summer in a Garden [MTL 4: 294].

He also wrote to Elisha Bliss about the proposed pamphlet, the sketchbook and Roughing It, which Sam planned to be out by August. It wasn’t published until Feb. 1872 [MTL 4: 295].

Whitelaw Reid wrote to Sam: “I hope to print in the morning your protest against the further manufacture of martyrs in re Surratt.” He wished he might accept Sam’s “very tempting invitation to Buffalo” having heard favorably of David Gray [MTP].