February 25 Tuesday – In a letter to Grace King, Livy wrote that she was just getting well from an attack of Quinzy,” having been in bed for “nearly a week in New York with Mr. Clemens as nurse” [MTNJ 3: 539n175]. She also confided that they had attended the opening of P&P play and found it “a real disappointment…In the main it is poor, and does not in the least do the book, we think, justice” [543-4n184]. Note: Quinsy was their term for tonsillitis.

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam with an advertising scheme:

I thought of getting up a little pamphlet, such as would sell for five or ten cents on news stands, elevated stands, etc. … The inside cover of each book and half a page of each book to be devoted to the advertising of our works, and half the pages to reading matter…. It strikes me to be the best kind of advertising. This would also pave the way and assist the sale of any cheap edition of your works [MTNJ 3: 541-2n181].