April 27 Thursday – At the Hotel Krantz in Vienna, Austria, Sam wrote to John Kendrick Bangs.

Dear Sir: Do you think you could persuade Mr. Howells to come out of that polling-booth & let me keep game a while? / Supplicatingly / Mark Twain [MTP: Bangs, Francis H. John Kendrick Bangs. (1941) p.205]. Note: see Apr. 2 to 13 to Howells.

Andrew Chatto wrote to Sam, pleased that Frank Bliss was making progress on the 512 deluxe edition, signed and numbered of Mark Twain’s works, and would like to see a specimen and a copy of Bliss’ prospectus, if he was issuing one. “The American price of $200 a set seems higher than the English public are accustomed to pay—the price of the [Robert Louis] Stevenson as you will see, was at the rate of 12/6 per vol” [MTP].