January 15 Monday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Charles Webster about being overcharged on a bill for work on the alarm system at the Farmington Ave. house. Sam added that he liked Webster’s “circular,” which was probably for LM, scheduled to be published in May [MTBus 208].

Sam also wrote to George W. Cable: 

I have just finished my book [LM] at last, & was about to return the volumes you so kindly lent me…I am a little short-handed, in the executive department, the coachman’s family being down with scarlet fever…two of our children are pretty sick, too—& 2½ weeks ago my secretary went home with scarlet fever…My life is a trifle too busy these days [MTP].

Sam also responded to Charles Langdon’s note on a notice for calls in the stock of the Susquehanna and South Western Railroad Co. Sam authorized his brother-in-law to take the $3,000 in funds from his interest in the Langdon Co. [MTP].

Sam also wrote a short note to James R. Osgood about LM preparation.

“There will be 20 to 25,000 more words than necessary; so the scissors can be freely used. The whole family sick, here” [MTLTP 162].

Sam also included a note of explanation sent with a book to Francis Wayland.

“Mine is a badly mutilated copy (on account of cuttings for that review) but it’s a million times better than none, or Shakespeare…” [MTP].

Sam also wrote to Miss Jenny Sharples of Lancashire, England of his birth date:

“I do wish it had been a hundred years earlier or thirty years later—either would answer” [MTP].