January 7 Sunday – Sam telegraphed from Wooster, Ohio to William Dean Howells to solicit Bret Harte and “the other boys” to get up a fund for William Andrew Kendall (1831?-1876), a poet who was ill in New York, to gain his passage back to California. Sam claimed he didn’t know Kendall, but Harte did, having published several of his poems while editor of the Overland. These efforts raised Kendall’s passage, but he committed suicide in 1876 [MTL 5: 8-9]. Sam also wrote to Livy about money issues and his desire to get home [10]. Sam also wrote James Redpath about a disputed lecture date in Paterson, New Jersey [12].