March 2 Monday – In Cambridge, Mass. Thomas Bailey Aldrich wrote:

“My dear Mr Clemens. / Howells and Sothern are to lunch with me at my house in Cambridge on Friday the 6th at one (1) o’clock. The whole thing will be a failure if you can not be on the ground at that hour. Will you come? / Yours faithfully, / T. B. Aldrich” [MTPO]. Note: answered Mar. 3. Edward Askew Sothern  (1826-1881), English comedian who played the part of Lord Dundreary in Tom Taylor’s Our American Cousin.