January 23 Monday – Isabel Lyon’s journal # 2: “Sent card to Mrs Clander, for Mr. Clemens” [MTP TS 2].

George B. Harvey wrote to Sam, soliciting him to attend the “little dinner to the Archbishop Thursday evening,” urged by Mr. O’Day [MTP]. Note: this may be Daniel O’Day.

Charles Langdon wrote to Samuel L.Clemens, Executor, requesting one-third of the Erie County taxes on the Genessee property, Buffalo, or $46.20. “I may be in New York within a day or two with important papers in connection with the closing up of the affairs of J. Langdon & Company, Incorporated, to which I must have your signature” [MTP].

David A. Munro wrote to Sam: “I have been talking to Colonel Harvey about ‘A Postscript,’ and he seems to think that since the Review could not publish it for more than a month, it might lose some of its pertinence”—could Sam agree to have it published in Harper’s Weekly? [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the top left corner, “Told him to publish it in the Weekly”; See Feb. 11, date first published in the Weekly.

John B. Stanchfield wrote to Sam, having received a “box of celluloid hairpins from Mr. Ashcroft.” Mrs. Stanchfield and the maid-servants were “pronounced” in their opinions “that they are not practicable.” He recommended it “might be well for us to dispose of a portion of our holdings” in the Koy-Lo Co. He would take up the Plasmon matter when he returned to NYC, “in a week or ten days” [MTP].