March 28 Friday – Sam wrote from Hartford to Will Bowen, sending Routledge’s London address for Will to write [MTL 5: 323].

Clemens also wrote to Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, thanking him for a token check received on his article about the Foster case (“British Benevolence”). Sam disclosed his plans to stay in England four months, and to take a copy of his new book there to publish simultaneously in both countries.

“Some people think I have no head for business, but it is a lie….I have a nice putrid anecdote that Hay will like. Am preserving it in alcohol—in my person” [MTL 5: 324].