March 12 Saturday – H.E. Fisher for the Conklin Pen Co. wrote to Sam:
Dear Sir: Your favor Feb. 25th [not extant] at hand and contents noted. In accordance with your suggestion we have mailed you to-day under separate cover by registered mail 1 CONKLIN SELF-FILLING PEN “L” 4. $4.00 size fitted with a pen which we believe will suit Mr. Clemens’s hand. This pen is forwarded with the compliments of THE CONKLIN PEN CO. and we trust will be received in this manner. We shall be greatly interested to know whether or not the pen fits Mr. Clemen’s [sic] hand and await your further reply regarding the pen [MTP].
Sam’s notebook: “Not over bronchitis yet” [NB 47 TS 7].
Florence University wrote to ask Mark Twain if he would offer “a few words” prior to their Mar. 16 presentation of Shakespeare’s Tmon of Athens [MTP].
The New York Times, p. BR162 reported in a squib that Mark Twain was “always busy writing” when not “hunting for a new villa” and had “written six new stories, all published or to be published in Harper’s Magazine”