January 23 Thursday – Sam signed an affidavit in the House lawsuit case, outlining William Gillette’s early (1884) involvement with a possible P&P play in order to discredit Edward H. House’s claims [MTNJ 3: 544n185].

The Brooklyn Eagle carried an announcement on p.4 of February’s articles for Harper’s Magazine, Number 477. Among them is listed a story collected in 1893’s The £1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories:

A MAJESTIC LITERARY FOSSIL. By Mark Twain.

Inquiry into the crimes of a Dictionary of Medicine.

[Note: Robert James’ A Medical Dictionary (1743) — See Gribben 350.]