March 18 Monday – Sam’s notebook: “11, Stenographer. Conway & Harrison, 6.30. Century Club 7 W. 43d” [NB 44 TS 7].

At 1410 W. 10th in N.Y.C., Sam wrote a short paragraph to Frank Bliss that he expected the American Publishing Co. to continue to add works to his 22 volumes in the Uniform Edition as they were written and published elsewhere [MTP].

Sam also wrote to M.A. DeWolfe Howe in Boston, who evidently had written asking him to write a sketch of the late Artemus Ward. Sam remembered their “pleasant conversation at the Tavern Club and also the happy verses,” but what with three years’ work in front of him he was unable to do the sketch. He thanked Howe for unspecified books, and noted by the list that they were the kind that “furnish just the sort of reading” he was fond of. He speculated that the books had gone to Hartford and since he wanted to go there himself “by and by” he would receive them there [MTP]. Note: See Mar. 18, 1885 for info on the Tavern Club.

Sam also wrote to Albert Sonnichsen (1855-1931) in N.Y.C., thanking him for his book and adding: “Your book goes far to persuade me that the infusion of bastard and un-American civilization which we have injected into the Filipino has been a good deal of damage to him” [MTP; Gribben 653]. The last source identifies Sonnichsen’s book as Ten Months a Captive among Filipinos; Being a Narrative of … Imprisonment on the Island of Luzon (1901).

Sam replied to the effusive praise of “Sitting in Darkness,” Mar. 5, from Edwin A. Brenholtz: “Although you, in charity and kindness for a busy man have forborne to require an answer, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of saying, out of my heart, I thank you” [Tenney from Gribben Oct. 1982].