March 8 Sunday – In Hartford Sam responded to Miss Clement’s question about his surname:

Yes, my name was formerly spelt as yours is, & there is but little doubt that all the Clements & Clemenses in America sprang from a common source & are kin….If you will look at one of the ordinary fac similies of the signatures of the judges who condemned Charles I, you will find one Geoffry Clement in the list. A son of his married a Spanish lady (I don’t know why — but his father had once been English Ambassador to Spain,) & came over & settled in Virginia. It is from this pair that I am descended [MTP].

Howard P. Taylor wrote to Sam unsure if other parties were competing for the dramatization of CY; could he extend the time period for authorization of the play? [MTP].

Elizabeth H. Abell wrote from Dunkirk, N.Y. asking for “something new” for her monthly subject of Mark Twain for the Women’s Literary Club. Sam wrote on the envelope, “Brer, you might send her the printed slip & say the last book is the Yankee SLC” [MTP].