March 27 Friday – Isabel V. Lyon wrote for Sam to Franklin G. Whitmore.
“Mr. Clemens wishes me to say that he is very glad to know you have the wills, and would like to have you send them to him by registered mail.
“Mrs. Clemens continues to improve a little, and sat up today for quite a while” [MTP].
John Y. MacAlister for the Plasmon Syndicate wrote from London to Sam, enclosing a form letter announcing an “Interim Dividend of 2 ½ per cent” which on Sam’s 5000 shares was £350.0.0. He wrote that Sam was one of those people with whom one could tell “the blunt truth,” and said he was “in a hell of troubles” with his health, having had three serious spells of illness. Plasmon was “going strong” there. He enclosed a check for £35 “being the price I got for your obituaries” [MTP].