March 19 Thursday – Susy Clemens’ thirteenth birthday.

 Howells wrote again on Mar. 19 and changed the date for the Tavern Club gathering to Monday, Mar. 23 [MTHL 2: 523]. He also invited Thomas Bailey Aldrich [524n1].

Mary E. Donly,  a farmer’s wife, wrote from Knoxville, Tenn. to ask if it was possible to get pay for a MS. if one was “not a hero or heroine and not highly cultured or educated, also without knowledge attained by travel as the reading of many books.” “What course would you advise me to pursue” [MTP]. Note: Sam wrote on the env., “Some time answer this literary aspirant”