January 12 Tuesday – Orion Clemens wrote to Sam, bemoaning in burlesque the fact that he’d not received the monthly stipend for himself and their Ma for the month:

Is he too busy? Can it be possible that he has after all let the books go without first receiving the money? If so, we are all on the ragged edge of hell. O, my poor grocer! My unhappy butcher! My sainted landlady! The devil has got us all! Affectionately, [MTP].

C.E. Grier, a Charlotte, N.C. attorney, wrote, “Notwithstanding your declining [not extant] to read my MS I am very glad I wrote.” Grier invited Sam to his home should he ever “have the misfortune” to visit Charlotte [MTP].

Emma Knickerbocker of Wayne, Michigan wrote asking for “a few lines” for the town book club. Sam wrote “Shameless” on the envelope [MTP].