January 23 Monday – Sam mailed his endorsed notes for Mount Morris Bank loans [Jan. 24 to Hall].

Mary B. Willard wrote to Sam in response to his Jan. 21 chewing-out letter of daughter Clara:

I fear you will grow weary of my frequent letters, but Clara has just been with me, and in considerable trouble, owing to her fear that you are thinking her less careful than she ought to be in her social life — In regard to the particular occasion of your anxiety [being the lone female at a social function], I think there certainly was good reason to which that…her invitation include a chaperone…as it was for so large and so official an assembly…. She never goes out unattended, to any place of amusement, or on any trivial errand…. I hope I have been able to relieve you of natural anxiety…” [MTP].