April 15 Monday – Sam signed the agreement with Harper & Brothers sent by Henry M.Alden on Apr. 3 to publish JA and TS,Detective. At the foot of the third page Sam wrote,

If at any time during the serial publication of Joan of Arc my nom de plume should be appended to it as author, I am to receive, after that, $15 per 1000 words additional, thence to the end. This is the only omission I notice in the above [contract] S.L. Clemens, Paris Apl. 15/95 [MTP].

Sam then sent the letter and contract to Katharine I. Harrison, assistant to H.H. Rogers; he wrote on the margin of the first sheet,

Dear Miss Harrison: Won’t you please put this in the safe? S.L.C. [MTP].

Frank Mayo’s production of Pudd’nhead Wilson opened in New York at the Herald Square Theatre, after a successful week in Hartford [Fatout, MT Speaking 276].