March 24 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to Paul Kester in N.Y.

I should like to see Tom Sawyer staged. If you will agree upon royalties with Mr. Howells I will accept the result. You can arrange the rest of the business with my friend Mr. H.H. Rogers, 26 Broadway. And I wish you would leave with him a copy of the play, if you don’t mind. We have no copies of [plays] “Colonel Sellers” & “Pudd’nhead Wilson,” I believe.

March 23 Friday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote two postcards and a letter to John Y. MacAlister.

March 21 Wednesday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam replied to Frank Bliss.

All right—I perceive that I did tell Whitmore to get the asphalt-money from you. I had forgotten it. If he needs more money I will give him an order on Elmira, so that he will not have to go to you until a time when it will not inconvenience you. …

March 18 Sunday – The New York Times, p. 14 reprinted a short letter from Sam to the London Anti-vivisection Society of London:

“Mark Twain” on Sport and Vivisection.

From the London Times.

March 17 Saturday – At 30 Wellington Court in London, England Sam wrote to John Y. MacAlister, entirely about Harper & Brothers plans to make two books out of his assorted sketches. MacAlister was editor of the Library in London, as well as being a principal in the Plasmon schemes, so may have had some interest in publishing a few of Mark Twain’s sketches. Or, Sam may have considered him a valued advisor in sorting out the complications of British copyright, simultaning, magazine articles, etc.

March 16 Friday – Jonas Henrick Kellgren Osteopath, billed £12.12.0 for March 7 through March 16 for Jean’s treatments [1900 Financial file MTP].

March 14 Wednesday – about this day Henry Ferguson of Hartford wrote again about the changes he’d requested in the article with his Journals from the Hornet saga.

“There seems to be no end to the trouble that you have brought upon yourself in your kind compliance with my wishes in regard to certain passages in my own and my brother’s journals. I greatly regret that it has been so but it is a great relief to me to have the slight modifications made” [MTP].

March 13 Tuesday – In London, England Sam replied to the Mar. 2 of Rev. F.W. Mortimer:

March 12 Monday – In London, England Sam wrote to Pamela A. Moffett [MTP].

March 11 Sunday – In London, England Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers:

Dear Mr. Rogers:

In bank here- – – – – $5,000

Due from Harper, May 1 – – 3,000

Edinburg, April 1 – – 3,000

Chatto (de luxe ed.) – 10,000  (but not all payable till Sept.)

Prospectively due from Bliss,

Harper, Chatto (old books) & Edinburg by next October, say– 12,000

$33,000