March 28 Thursday – Annie Brown wrote to Sam acknowledging his positive response to give a reading at her home in New York on Apr. 13 [MTNJ 3: 468n211].

Sam’s notebook:

Mch. 28/89. Told Paige of my talk with Hamersley, & he expressed his hearty willingness to let us raise the capital by selling the English patents for $10,000,000 — either outright, or we to retain 4/10 of the English stock [3: 468].

L.P. di Cesnola for Metro. Museum of Art wrote of Sam’s election as a member [MTP].

Daniel Whitford for Alexander & Green wrote to Sam of Daniel Frohman’s intransigence in sharing profits from the play written by Abby Sage Richardson [MTP].

C.D. Holmes wrote a postcard from Fargo, N.D. to Sam to see an article about Stonewall Jackson’s famous campaign of 1862 beginning in the Mar. 14 issue of the National Tribune, Washington [MTP].