January 26 Monday – Sam wrote from Minneapolis to Charles Webster, more of the same—directing him again about putting funds in his name, and sending unbound copies of HF to magazines [MTP].

In the evening Sam and Cable gave a reading at the Philharmonic Hall, Winona, Minnesota. Cable wrote that they had to “rise at 5 tomorrow morning to take cars. O how home-sick I am” [Turner, MT & GWC 91].

In Minneapolis or Winona, Minn. Sam wrote an aphorism to an unidentified person: “None genuine without this signature / on the bottle: / Mark Twain / Jan 26/85.” [MTP: Bauman Rare Books online sale Nov. 19, 2009].