March 10 Monday – In Hartford Sam wrote to Andrew Chatto:

Mr. Ramasso has made translations of some of my sketches, & wishes to publish them in Italy, but I necessarily refer him to you, because the authority to grant or withhold permission rests solely with you.

Sam asked Chatto to send Adolfo Ramasso his books, but nothing earlier than GA [MTP].

Livy wrote her mother, Olivia Lewis Langdon:

We have a great hope that we may be able to go to Europe the first part of June for the Summer months. We are not entirely certain just whether we can go or not, it will depend somewhat upon Mr. Clemens’ business. It may be that it will be necessary for him to go to England on account of the machine…. Then we want to have the children settle in France for a little while on account of their French. If Susy enters Bryn Mawr next year she must get more French during the Summer and this seems the best way to do it [Salsbury 273-4].

The Brooklyn Eagle, p.3 under “Literary” ran a glowing review of Kipling’s Plain Tales from the Hills, and remarked:

What Bret Harte and Mark Twain have been to the pioneer civilization of the West and of the Pacific coast in the way of romantic or picturesque or grotesque illustration Rudyard Kipling is to the meeting and the continual struggle between the civilization of ancient India and that of modern England.

Daniel Whitford wrote to Sam enclosing another royalty check for the P&P play. Whitford had not seen Judge Joseph Daly’s (Augustin’s brother) opinion in the “House matter” but he ordered a copy. “I suppose he must hold that your letter to House and his reply constituted a contract giving House the exclusive right to dramatize” [MTP]. Note: this is exactly what the good judge held.