March 29 Thursday – The New York Times, p. 2, ran a memo sent from the Hartford Courant:

Mr. Clemens to Return to Hartford.

From the Hartford (Conn.) Courant.

Letters received from Mark Twain by friends in this city contains the welcome news that he and his family, who have been so long abroad, contemplate soon returning to Hartford and reopening their old home on Farmington Avenue. There was talk a while ago of their going to Princeton to live, but these letters are to the effect that they are coming to rejoin the circle of their old Hartford friends and that this will be done soon.

Also in the Times, Mar. 30 on p. 3, was this bit of news from England datelined Mar. 29:

Mark Twain May Testify on Copyright.

LONDON, March 29.—In the course of the discussion of Copyright bills in the House of Lords to-day, Lord Monkswell said that Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) was desirous of testifying before the Select Committee. [Note: see Apr. 3.]

Sam’s notebook : “Robert McClure, / Devonshire Club, 7.30. To meet Mr. Eden Philpots; Bullen, author of the ‘Cruise of the Cachelot,’ & Mr. Major, author of ‘When Knighthood was in Flower’” [NB 43 TS 6a].

Note: Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960), author [Gribben 545].Frank Thomas Bullen (1857-1915), author of The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World after Sperm Whales (1898); Bullen wrote to Sam on Apr. 5 [Gribben 110].: Bullen inscribed another of his books to Mark Twain on Mar. 30. See entry. Charles Major (1856-1913), pseudonym Edward Caskoden, author of When Knighthood Was in Flower, etc. (1898) [Gribben 447].