Spring – Profits on Grant’s Memoirs: Sam, $93,481.34; Webster $25,942.37; Mrs. Grant $394,459.53 [MTNJ 3: 316n47].

April – “English As She Is Taught” was published in the April issue of Century Magazine. Sam had included the schoolboy’s composition from the piece, “On Girls” in his Feb. 10 talk before the Stationers’ Board of Trade on Governor’s Island [MTNJ 3: 278n179]. He also read part of the article at Boston and New Haven on Mar. 31.