March 16 Saturday – In Cambridge, Mass., Howells wrote to Sam, answering his Mar. 15 letter and submission:

“The new thing you send me is perfectly delicious. It went right home every time. What a fancy you have got! And what sense!….It’s sickening to have you going away” [MTHL 1: 224].

Howells wasn’t certain he would attend the Bayard Taylor banquet on Apr. 4, though he did go. Note: Sam’s submission was “About Magnanimous-Incident Literature.”

Sam wrote from Hartford, accepting the invitation of George Haven Putnam to attend the Bayard Taylor Banquet on Apr. 4 [MTLE 3: 29].

Sam also wrote to John T. Raymond, per Charles Perkins, naming Perkins as his agent to receive the twenty per cent proceeds from the continuing Gilded Age play [MTLE 3: 30].