January 21 Tuesday – The Alta had not only registered Sam’s letters for copyright, but they were in a conflict with the Sacramento Union over its printing of one letter. They printed an “emphatic claim to ownership” of Sam’s Holy Land letters [MTL 2: 174n1].

Sam’s Special Correspondent “Letter from ‘Mark Twain’” dated Dec. 14, 1867 ran in the San Francisco Alta California. Subtitles: Concerning Government Salaries; Female Clerks; Distribution of the Places; Secretary’s Seward’s Real Estate Bargains; A Shaky Piece of Property; The Sutro Tunnel [Schmidt; Camfield, blibiog.].