1 Before sending the previous letter (delayed until 17 January) Clemens learned—probably from a 14 January advertisement—that his Sandwich Islands letters were to be reprinted the next day in the Tribune’s “Extra Sheet.” He evidently decided to take the opportunity to revise one of his remarks about missionaries in his first letter, printed on 6 January. He mailed this correction to Whitelaw Reid; the note that must have accompanied it does not survive. Reid responded on 15 January: “Your correction about the missionaries only arrived to day, unfortunately just 24 hours too late even for our extra sheet. But I will have the correction made tonight and a new plate cast for what we print hereafter” (Whitelaw Reid Papers, DLC; “We shall publish . . . ,” New York Tribune, 14 Jan 73, 4). The first issue of the “Extra” was printed from the same plates as the original 6 January printing, and the text was therefore identical. Later issues of the “Extra,” however, contained this additional paragraph (see Enclosure with 3 January 1873 to Whitelaw Reid for the earlier version of the text: the addition was inserted after the paragraph “These people . . . pardonable way.”). This later issue (printed sometime after 15 January) is thus the source of the text that Clemens forwarded to Reid, presumably on 14 January.