March 31 Saturday – In Paris Sam wrote a brief note to Frederick J. Hall, asking him to gather an unbound P&P for Lord Dufferin, the British Ambassador. Dufferin wished to bind the book himself. Hall was to remind Sam when he came, so he could write on the fly-leap and tell him how to direct the package [MTP]. Note: Lord Dufferin was Frederick Temple Blackwood (1826-1902), diplomat and author.

Critic ran an unsigned article, “Mark Twain as Plagiarist” on p. 221. This is a much-abridged version of Twain’s “Private History of the ‘Jumping Frog’ Story” from the Apr. North American Review [Tenney, ALR supplement to the Reference Guide (Spring, 1982) 6].