January to May, 1904 — Daniel Willard Fiske wrote a note on a brown scrap of paper:  Since 2 this a.m. I am enjoying a stalwart assault of gout.  Mrs. Schaeffer, sister of Eugene Schuyler, his biographer and the editor of his writings, with her interesting daughter, is at the Villino Montebello. I don’t [know] whether you know her or not. Kindest regards and best wishes to Mrs. Clemens & the house hold [MTP]

January – Journalisten-und Schriftsteller-Verein “Concordia,” an independent organization of journalists and writers based in Vienna, wrote to Sam. Only the envelope survives [MTP].

Success Magazine published Ida Hinman’s article, “Mark Twain’s Mother’s Story of his Youth” [eBay item 250418267212, May 10, 2009].

In an autobiographical dictation in this month, Sam disparaged Karl Baedeker’s Italy. Handbook for Travellers in its praise of architecture and decorations of the Villa de Quarto [Gribben 38: MTP].

January, ca. – Sometime in late 1903 or January 1904 Sam wrote to Henry A. Butters.

I suppose you unloaded that stock on me because you were in a position to know that your mismanagement had made it worthless. I was just on the point of advertising for you in the San Francisco papers. I find that you are in hiding here. I must ask you to pay me back that $7,500 within this week, or you will have serious reason to regret it. [Over] I find that you unloaded that stock upon me by your misrepresentations, & that the statements which you made to me were untrue [MTP]. Note: source gives this as “ca. 1904,” but see Jan. 29 to Stanchfield, which suggests this was written on or before that date.