January 22 Sunday – Sam wrote from Buffalo, again to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, asking that he not print the paragraph sent on Jan. 15. Aldrich replied on Jan. 25 that it was too late; that the note and his apology had been printed on 42,000 copies of the next edition [MTL 4: 305].

Sam also wrote to James Redpath, advising him of places and dates in California for John Bartholomew Gough to lecture. Gough had been a very successful temperance lecturer, using theatrics on stage to further his cause [MTL 4: 306-7].

Sam also wrote to H.E. Evans in Oshkosh, Wisc., about a book Evans hadn’t received.

Dear Sir: / I ordered my publisher to send you the book, long ago—& now I have sent him this present letter of yours, with an imperative order to send you the book immediately. He will be very likely to attend to it without this time without fooling away any perceptible amount of time—but if he neglects it, I ask as a personal favor that you will let me know, with dispatch. Things shall go right or else there shall be trouble in the family. / Yrs Truly / Samℓ. L. Clemens [MTP, drop-in letters]. Evans is not identified.

John Henry Riley wrote to Sam on the S.S. City of Dublin, and later in London. He’d decided to take the ship Gambia to the Cape on Feb. 1 [MTP].