January 21 Thursday – Livy wrote for Sam to Frederick J. Hall:

Your letter of Jan. 7th has just reached us [not extant]…Like all your letters it was a great comfort to me….I am anxious that Mr. C. should take that sixteen thousand that he will have from his story and letters and invest it elsewhere because it surely is very bad to have all ones eggs in one basket….Therefore he intends to invest $16,000 through Mr. Halsey.

Mr. Clemens has been ill in bed with a very bad cough now for a week, he is better and is going to sit up for a little while today. I write therefore for him. …

Trusting you will pardon the many erasures in this work as Mr. C. talks to me while I write [MTLTP 301-3].