March 9 Monday – In Hartford, Sam wrote to Roswell Smith, editor/owner of the Century Magazine.

All right—I’ve just written to Cable; & when he gives me the date I want him to furnish it to you & Gilder also, so you can work out the N.Y. end of the enterprise.

The rest of the letter involves an “Imperial Dictionary” that Sam wanted to buy at the cheapest rate. Just what the “enterprise” was with Cable, Gilder, and Smith, is unclear, but may have been a sop to the Century for scooping Gen. Grant’s Memoirs.

Reviews of Huck Finn came in slowly; the San Francisco Examiner was one of the first to do so, but found the book “ very much the same character as many of the author’s Pacific Coast sketches, in the utter absence of truth…” [Perry 144].

Jane Clemens wrote to Sam & family, and finished it on Mar. 10: “When you all get over on the other side of the world, I don’t expect to see you again…If I live until the 18th of June I will be 82 years old” [MTP].