March 17 Wednesday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Charles Warren Stoddard, the day after receiving a reply to his letter of Feb. 1. Stoddard dislocated and broken his left arm in a riding accident. Sam answered that he’d never before been:

“…bodily hurt…But I had 8 cousins in one family [Lamptons] every devil of whom had enjoyed from one to two broken arms before reaching puberty. Think of it!”

Sam also asked what had become of Prentice Mulford (“Dogberry”) [MTL 6: 417-8].

Sam wrote a $15 check to John Watson [MTP].

Miss Clara Marshall wrote from Shreveport, La. to ask Sam’s help publishing [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env. “Wants a literary contract”