March 11 Monday – Sam’s notebook discloses a new offer made to Abby Sage Richardson, one she did not accept, but one which was similar to that made with Gilbert B. Densmore for stage rights to GA.

Made this proposition to Mrs. Richardson to-day: That in lieu of the present contract, she dramatise the Prince & Pauper for me; I to pay her $500 upon delivery of the MS to me, June 1 or July 1, be her work good or bad. If the play succeeds, I to pay her another $500 (this to be the first $500 received by me as profits. After that, I to pay her $5 every time the piece is played. / She will answer Thursday [MTNJ 3: 463].

Orion Clemens finished a letter he began on Mar. 11. He reported a paranoid letter from Puss; she was “indignant that Thiehoff should have written; writes to me that he made his bill bigger than it was; …commands me to send no more money to Thiehoff” [MTP].

Webster & Co. wrote: “We enclose herewith some more voting blanks. We received this morning your vote on the Conkling book and have written Alfred Conkling in regard to it.” Local agent sales had been averaging 140 a day. Nearly $9,000 paid out this month, including $4,200 to Webster [MTP].