March 22 Thursday – At the Hotel Brighton in Paris Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers.

I’ve had a tough time persuading Mrs. Clemens to stay here and allow me to go back. She consents to let me go; but it is on condition that I remain in America only 3 weeks and take ship for France again May 7. She wants to go home with me, but the physician will not hear of it — says she would lose all she has gained — and she is gaining pretty satisfactorily. Susy is a deal better, and has acquired a valuable appetite.

Sam also wrote that he had “begged off” on several interviews, for the N.Y. World as well as from two London and two Paris newspapers, and that if Rogers saw any interviews they would be unauthorized.

I’ve got some things to say, but not in interviews [MTHHR 48-9]. Note: interestingly, see Mar. 27 article in the Brooklyn Eagle.