February 5 Friday – Orion Clemens wrote Sam, acknowledging receipt of $155 check, from which he gave $5 to “Puss” Quarles and deposited $50 into his mother’s account. He’d heard from Theodore W. Crane that the Clemens family was well and from Ed F. Brownell that the papers contained word of the quarter million given to Mrs. Grant, “so I suppose everything is all right; but can’t the children write to us once a month, or, better still, once a week, in German or English or even in Jean’s hieroglyphics?” [MTP].