January 1 Sunday – Schwartz Bros. (soon to be F.A.O. Schwartz), New York, billed Sam $3.50 for doll parts: “1 head, 1 wig, repackage doll.” Note: stamped on invoice: “bills rendered Jan. May and Oct.”; Park & Tilford, fancy groceries, New York billed Sam $36.88 for two kinds of jelly, “2 doz Glen Whiskey”, paid Jan. 11 [MTP].

Joseph William Torrey (1828-1885) wrote from Bangkok, Siam, about sending a copy of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Chinese [MTP]. Note: Note: Sam wrote on the env., “From a Sovereign Prince of the Island of Borneo, who is at the same time American—born & a U.S. Consul General!”

Karl Gerhardt wrote to Sam and Livy of the Paris weather and his love of Greek sculpture and his hope that the Warners, now in Munich, would return to Paris [MTP].