March 26 Sunday – Sam wrote from Hartford to William Wright (Dan De Quille). He gave Dan some advice on selling stock and his plans to lecture in New York:

….If you sell at a loss, jam the remnant into stocks again & sail on, O ship of State, sail on, sail on! You needn’t take the trouble to ask me, when you think it best to sell, but just bang away.

      I go to New York an hour from now, to lecture 4 afternoons on my own hook & on my own risk & expense. Be gone a week. Can’t see Bliss till I get back, but have just written him to send you written authority & price of books [Walker 37].

Note: Sam’s note about lecturing four afternoons on his own hook would suggest that Redpath was not able to set up lectures on such short notice. Nevertheless, Sam’s Mar. 24 letter to Fairbanks stated he would lecture three times in New York. Sam did lecture from Mar. 28 to 31 on his “own hook,” and on short notice, and made little from the effort, or so Annie Fields wrote in her diary on Apr. 6 [MTPO notes with Mar. 16 to Redpath; New York Times Mar. 26, p7 “Amusements – Brief Mention”].

Mar. 27 NYC temperatures ranged from 35-42 degrees F. with no rain [NOAA.gov].