March 16 Monday – At the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam finished his Mar. 12 and 13 to Dorothy Quick.

March 16. The Bermudian has arrived, with / 60 bags of mail & 250 passengers. She sails to- morrow.

We don’t sail April 1. We have postponed to April 11. I am sorry, but Mr. Rogers is improving ever so fast, & we want him to stay as long as he will. Bermuda is better than four or five or six million doctors. Don’t you forget that, dear. / With lots of love [MTP].

Sam also added a P.S. to his Mar. 14 to Francess Nunnally.

P.S. March 16 (Monday.) We don’t sail homeward April 1. We have postponed it to April 11. Francesca dear, I am taking the liberty of appointing you to membership in my “Aquarium.” (Club). It contains 5 angel-fishes & one shad. I am the shad. The badge of the club is a very small angel-fish pin, to be worn on the breast. I will bring it when I come. I have to wear a flying-fish until I can get a shad-pin made [MTP].

Emilie R. Rogers (Mrs. H.H. Rogers) arrived in Bermuda on the Bermudian. On Mar. 23 Sam noted in his letter to daughter Clara that Emilie had not been in good health upon her arrival but that by then she was “much improved.”

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “Mrs. Rogers arrived today. She has a peculiar nervous affection of the right arm and hand” [MTP: IVL TS 34].

Archibald Henderson wrote to Isabel Lyon advising he was sending Clemens the typed chapter on “Mr. Shaw’s Philosophy” [MTP]. Note: likely George Bernard Shaw’s philosophy, which was close to Clemens’.

William Webb Sunderland wrote from Danbury, Conn. confirming receipt of Sam’s Mar. 9 letter with amount of seventh payment (as per contract). He thanked Clemens and reported they had framed the loggia [MTP.]