March 14 Saturday – At the Princess Hotel in Hamilton, Bermuda Sam began a letter to Frances Nunnally that he added a PS to on Mar. 16.

I was very glad to get your letter, Francesca dear, & also glad that you all escaped uninjured from the fire. But I hope you won’t be subjected to any more risks of that kind.

It is lovely summer weather here, now, splendidly sunny & yet not too hot. I believe this is the best climate in the world. The sailing, among the islands is delightful, & the water is divinely blue. The drives are very fine, too. I wish you were here.

We sail for New York April 1, arriving Thursday April 3—& then it will soon be Easter & you will let us fetch you to New York for a visit, won’t you? I am depending on it, and I hope I shan’t be disappointed.

Are you growing out of my knowledge? Would I know you if I met you on the street in a strange town? I hope so. / Lovingly / SLC [MTP; MTAq 122]. Note: see Mar. 16  for P.S.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: “I’ve got 2 old Bermudian cedar chairs. They are darlings” [MTP: IVL TS 33].

The New York Times, p. BR140 ran this notice:

Completing Mark Twain’s Works.

The American Publishing Company of Hartford, Conn., has just issued the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth volumes of Mark Twain’s collected writings in order to complete the sets of the various uniform editions published by them. These volumes are important ones, and contain many of the stories, sketches, and articles written by Mr. Clemens during the last five years, and also a number of earlier stories, which a careful search, under Mr. Clemens’s supervision, has brought to light, and which, in many cases, rank with his best work.