March 1 Saturday – Sam’s notebook: “Leave 9.14-ar. 9.40—be at 115 Broadway 10 a.m. testify before Commissioner Dulon (for Prussia). See 12 stories drawer. Waiting room. / Delmonico 44th St at 2 o’clock. Then 3 or 4 at Grand Central” [NB 45 TS 4]. Note: after testifying, Sam intended to luncheon then return home late in the afternoon.

South Jersey Republican – Hammonton N.J. March 1, 1902

Mark Twain was recently chaffing Sir Wemyss Held on the vagaries of English pronunciation: “You spell a name B-e-a-u-c-h-a-m-p, and pronounce It Marchbanks,” he said. “And you do precisely the same thing,” replied Wemyss.

“What do you mean?” replied Mark Twain. —“Well,— you spell —your name C-l-e-m-e-n-s, and you pronounce it Twain.”

William H. Pearson for NY Produce Exchange sent a printed bill for $10 to Sam for Safe Deposit Storage from Mar. 1; stamped paid on Mar. 3 [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Paid till March 1, 1903.”

Livy’s diary gives Mildred Holden as guest for Mar. 1 and Mar. 2 [MTP: DV161].