April 25 Friday – In Riverdale, N.Y. Sam wrote a postcard to The American Plasmon Co. giving them the times he was due to be in three places in N.Y.C. on the following day: Hoyt & Co., 15 W. 42nd at 10:45 a.m.; the Plasmon Co. at 11:15 a.m., and William Dean Howells’ at noon [MTP]. Note: The William H. Hoyt Co. at that address had advertised “Mark Twain’s Home for Sale” on Apr. 19 in the Hartford Courant [Meltzer 243].

Sam and Livy autographed a note to an unidentified person, on this day and May 16, 1902: “Let us save the to-morrows for work. Truly yours, Mark Twain” [MTP].

Sam’s notebook: “The man to see in York Harbor about cottages is Joseph C. Bridges, Hotel Albracca” [NB 45 TS 11].