March 5 Tuesday – In Hartford, Sam wrote a one-liner to Frank Fuller on his prior promise (see Mar. 3) to stop on his next trip to New York City. He couldn’t do it on the next trip because of appointments, but he would the trip after [MTP].

Franklin File wrote asking Sam for a story of 10,000 words “for duplication in ten of the very best daily journals of the country. He gave Charles A. Dana’s name as reference. Sam wrote, “Brer W. Politely inform him that I am unable to undertake it” [MTP].