March 12 Thursday – In Hartford Sam responded to Hall’s Mar. 11 note confirming that he’d look for him Saturday (Mar. 14) and suggested he stay the night, returning to N.Y. at “7.10 Sunday evening.” Sam believed that in “short interviews we overlook lots of things that ought to be discussed.” By this time some trains ran on Sunday [MTP].

Wallace Peck wrote from N.Y. inquiring just where in Sam’s works or clippings was the “comical conceit” idea that withholding the first meal from a baby might avert its habit of eating [MTP].

Frederick J. Hall wrote to Sam that he’d received his letter and would come to Hartford on Saturday morning. After a brief mention of the Sherman family and James G. Blaine’s letter, Hall wrote at the bottom, “P.S. A big jobber Butler Bros representative was just in here & says he can sell thousands of a 1.00 edition of Huck Finn. He would probably be willing to order five thousand lots” [MTP].