January 7 Thursday – William D. Howells wrote Sam a postcard, confirming he and his daughter would leave Boston at 3 p.m. Jan. 13 and reach the Clemens’ house at 7 [MTHL 2:550].

Charles Webster wrote that he’d been confined to the house for two days. He didn’t like the idea of canvassing and publishing the Library of Humor “in the summer simply to hold agents. It is too good a book to sacrifice in that manner.” He felt the book would never be out of date; it could wait, but “this War literature will have its day” [MTP].