February 25 Thursday – Clinton Rice, attorney wrote from Wash. DC. Illness in his family had prevented a call on Clemens during his last stop there. His object was to remind him of Sam’s request in 1870 to correspond with Orion about the price of the Tennessee Land. After spending time and money to find a purchaser, he’d rec’d a letter from Orion that a purchaser had been found, so even though the owed amount of $11.70 was small, he thought he should be paid by a millionaire [MTP]. (See Mar. 1 entry.)