March 8 Sunday – Sam’s coup of Grant’s memoirs, though not widely proclaimed, had been noticed. The Brooklyn Eagle, on p. 2 reported that Sam was in New York:

There is a great deal more bitterness than he [a Century man] intimated, and it is certain that no more papers by Grant will appear in the Century. Some say that Mark Twain has incidentally closed the pages of the magazine to any further transcripts from his forthcoming books, which will be a loss of advertising. He is in town to help Webster in the new project. The terms of the partnership between them and the Grants are not divulged, further than that Mark advances the considerable capital required to put the books on the market.